Fit-for-purpose project controls

Project controls are commonly understood in literature as the set of activities with capacity to assess and steer different variables towards a common purpose. Particularly in unique and complex conditions, it is crucial to understand how project controls contribute to project success, which is defined in literature through success factors and success criteria. This research project attempts to establish the relations between project controls and project success based on theoretical findings. Following a desk research approach, theoretical and practitioners-based frameworks were investigated and analysed regarding their respective control activities. The analysis determines the contribution of each control activity to project success and, based on comparison and matching of results, proposes a redefinition and re-clustering of the most important control activities in a new framework. The result is a framework composed of 98 project controls clustered in 8 control areas, namely Planning, Governance, Accountability, Performance, Outcomes, Solution, Uncertainty and Stakeholders. In order to better understand the applicability of the new framework across industries, three interviews were conducted with practitioners. Since the results from the interviews have not provided a strong level of assurance on the applicability of the new framework, an improvement is suggested based on the re-clustering of project controls. The new framework is intended as a contribution to existing theories on project control and may be used for future investigation.

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fit-for-purpose
project controls
control framework
success criteria
success factors

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