Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Fifth Edition

Control Cycles—A General Model

1. LO 13.1 Understand the nature of the control cycle and the four key steps in a general project control model.

A general model of organizational control includes four components that operate in a ­continuous cycle and can be represented as a wheel. These elements are:

1. Setting a goal. Project goal setting goes beyond overall scope development to include setting the project baseline plan. The project baseline is predicated on an accurate Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) process. Remember that WBS establishes all the deliverables and work packages associated with the project, assigns the personnel responsible for them, and creates a visual chart of the project from the highest level down through the deliverable and ...