What is Project Controls?

One of the objectives of Project Controls Expo is to bring standardisation on application of project controls across all industries.

To achieve this the first step would be to agree on a definition of project controls.
Here are some of our delegates views:

“Project controls, it is all about providing the right information, at right time, at the right level to assist project leaders to make the right decisions.”
- Sanjiv Parekh – Zero Float

“Monitor & measure, corrective action, forecast & outcomes, baseline communication, cost & budget, planning & risk scheduling, information & data, performance, estimating, variances & deviations, project strategy & execution.”
- Shane Forth – FAPM, FACostE

“Project controls is the medium in which project performance and decision-makers integrate. It is a critical friend, aiming to assure truth and advise on future achievability. They do this through a deep comprehension of people, process and analysis.”
- Val Matthews - blueVisions

“As simple and obvious as it may seem, it is a very complex definition, which shows the degree of knowledge and experience that a person has in the field of project control. Culture is also a determining factor in the definition. Ideas and concepts are worth launching!”
- Oscar Siles Chávez - AACE LATAM Region 10

“Project Controls closes the gap between project management and construction management to achieve the ultimate goal.”
- Jude Manabat - SKEDSEAL Corporation

"We are the group that keeps the project driving between the ditches."
- Michael Bollier

“Project Controls is a process that encompasses the resources, procedures, and tools for the planning, monitoring, and controlling of all phases of the capital project lifecycle. This includes estimating, cost and schedule management, risk management, change management, earned value progressing, and forecasting.”
- Andy J Donlan, Emerald Project Controls Consultancy B.V

“Project Controls is the discipline that provides the project with the information and advice as an enabler for successful project delivery. In particular delivery to time and cost by creating control baselines and ongoing control through integrated planning / scheduling, estimating, risk management, cost management, change management and associated performance management.”
- Rod Whiting - Baker Hughes

“Project Controls is the subset of project management that encompasses all activities taken to monitor and control projects and involves a set of tools, processes and people skills to predict, understand and constructively influence the time and cost outcomes as well as any risk events that may impact the project."
- Oghenemaro Louis Sota - VGC Group

"I believe Project Controls is a support hand to the project management team to effectively plan and utilize the resources, cost, time while maintaining the timeline, budget, profit margin and quality of work. It is a combination of planning and cost control, aiming to deliver the project within the allocated time and budget.”
- Rana Nousheen

"Project controls is the application of tools and techniques to monitor, collect / analyze data and update project deliverables so as to communicate project performance (cost, schedule and scope) or status to support effective management and decision making.”
- Claudio Augustine - Karpos Engineering Limited

"Project Controls is the application of scientific methods providing timely insight of the rate of consumption of resources in the delivery of defined outcomes whilst adjusting expectations for total resource consumption in line with evidence of variations in productivity, changes in the desired outcomes and impact of risk events.”
- Andrew Langridge - ARES PRISM

"Project Control is a scientific application to detect deviation from the planned values at an early stage of a project, involving project planning and project execution as an indicator to identify correctness and to measure project performance against actuals, so that the project objectives can be achieved.”
- Akindele Oluwaseun - Stalwart Consults International

“Application of knowledge, skills and behaviours to plan/baseline the project and report the project progress to the right stakeholders at right time in the right format to control and monitor the project objectives.”
- Vaibhav Gadakh - Projcon

“Project can be controlled via monitoring the time and cost of remaining scope of contract, which is called project controls.”
- Gokulakrishnan - Siemens Technology India

“Define Estimation, define budgets, monitor the real facts and propose scenarios for balance of scope.”
- Arun A - Ramboll Energy