Control is one of the most fundamental moments in project management. Steering means initiating, controlling and ensuring the implementation of approved projects.

Various forms of control occur in project management. Elements of control are just as much at home in the content and scope management of projects as in schedule, cost and risk management.

Control in general means influencing the workflow of a device or a process according to a plan made in advance. In project management, the process of control is naturally more complex than, for example, with a technical device, but here too the following applies: There are input variables (budget, human resources, time) and state variables (course of the project, efficiency) to which output variables (product, time of completion) are set in relation.

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