Project Execution and Control Report: Effective Management of Projects

This report provides a detailed analysis of project execution and control, highlighting essential management techniques for project success. It covers six key modules: directing and managing project work, change control tools and techniques, quality assurance and control, risk and communication management, progress and performance measurement tools, and project closure. The report explores how project objectives are set and managed, discusses various tools and techniques, emphasizes quality checks, addresses risk and communication management, examines performance measurement tools, and details the project closure process. The report emphasizes the importance of each module in ensuring project completion and success. It references key literature in project management to support its findings.

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Executive Summary
Project management has evolved into an integral part of the business and business activities.
The project manager and his team must take necessary steps to manage projects. The six
modules discussed in this report ensure the completion and success of a particular project. In
this report it has been discussed how the project objectives are set and managed accordingly,
the tools and techniques have also been discussed, quality check of the project has been
showcased, the risks and communication risks has also been mentioned, then the performance
measurement tools and lastly, the project closure has been showcased.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
1. Directing and Managing Project Work..................................................................................3
2. Change Control Tools and Techniques..................................................................................3
3. Quality assurance and Control...............................................................................................4
4. Risk and Communication Management.................................................................................5
5. Progress and Performance Measurement Tools.....................................................................5
6. Project Closure.......................................................................................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
Project management has evolved into an integral part of the business and business
activities (Haimes, 2015). The project manager and his team must take necessary steps to
manage projects.
This report will highlight all these management techniques in details explaining all the
six modules elaborately.
1. Directing and Managing Project Work
Directing and Managing Project work involves performing all the work procedures
that are related to the project plan. Directing and Managing Project work provides the entire
management procedure of a particular project. It is associated with all the tools and
techniques by which the project activities can be properly executed (Rice, 2013). It involves
the following parameters- validation of the opportunities, controlling of the opportunities
aroused, controlling of the project work and schedule, detail analysis of the project budgets
and quality of the product involved in the project, mitigate risks and taking necessary actions
to solve the threats and the risks, and lastly, controlling the stakeholder and communications
with them.
2. Change Control Tools and Techniques
The change tools and techniques associated with the project management are –
Expert judgement: The project experts make the expert judgement or take all the vital
decisions into the Change Control Board (CCB) (Cameron & Green, 2015). In a project, the
Project Manager is responsible for administering and managing all the project activities and
take decisions to properly execute all the tasks.

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Meetings: The meetings that the CCB members undertake are known as the change
control meetings, the roles and responsibilities each member undertakes are clearly specified
in this section, the decisions the members undertake are composed in a report and are
delivered to the stakeholders for future follow-ups (Cameron & Green, 2015).
Change Control Tools: The tools, methods and techniques involved to control or
manage or execute the project activities in an agile fashion.
3. Quality assurance and Control
Project Quality Assurance involves the checking and verification of all the project
tasks. In this way, the Project Quality Assurance runs all throughout the project timeline. The
quality audit is the tool used in this procedure, it analysis the project in each and every step
and check and verifies that all the standards, policies and methodologies are being properly
followed or not (O'brien, 2013). The quality audit tool is responsible to verify all the risks
associated in between, notify how to mitigate all the risks and how to solve the issues. In this
way, a specific project can be examined and can be improved.
Project Quality Control involves the monitoring, administering and controlling of all
the project activities and lastly controlling whether the activities are properly executing
following all the standards and the policies (O'brien, 2013). If any mishaps occur within the
project Project Quality Control is responsible to check all those mishaps, it is a responsibility
to mitigate the risks and threats correlated with the project.
4. Risk and Communication Management
Risk Communication Management involves the procedures of letting project
managers and his team knows the potential threats and risks to a particular project and
communicates to take the measures to mitigate those risks and threats (Haimes, 2015). The

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communication is required in every aspect of the project. The stakeholders are all dispersed
everywhere, so everyone needs to be updated constantly about the ongoing project. Secondly,
the team members should communicate with each other while working on a particular
project, but due to the cultural, age, geographical, level of education, the communication
becomes a challenge which needs to be managed (Haimes, 2015). Thirdly, all the projects
face various challenges all through its timeline, so it is the responsibility of the project
manager and his team to communicate regularly and take necessary steps to execute the
project effectively.
5. Progress and Performance Measurement Tools
A project must be assessed in terms of objectives met, in terms of end results it offers,
in terms of deadline. The budget, the schedule and the quality – all the aspects of a particular
project must be analysed, if all these mentioned parameters are achieved successfully then the
project is successful and if not matched, then the project will be considered to be failed
(Teeratansirikool et al., 2013). That is why a project monitoring system must be implemented
to indicate the key aspects associated with the project tasks. Therefore, the progress and
performance management tools are beginning, plan, execute, control, and that will access a
particular project from beginning to the end.
6. Project Closure
Project Closure involves the sign-off from the clients and it assures that the project is
successful, the project’s further opportunities, handing the project to the clients, after handing
over the project to the clients the project files are compiled and are transferred to the
stakeholders for future use (Rahschulte, Martinelli & Milosevic, 2016). Afterwards, the
lessons learned from the project are filed and documented and lastly comes the celebration
party for the project success.

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Conclusion
It can be concluded from the above discourse that these six modules discussed in this
report ensure the completion and success of a particular project. In this report it has been
discussed how the project objectives are set and managed accordingly, the tools and
techniques have also been discussed, quality check of the project has been showcased, the
risks and communication risks has also been mentioned, then the performance measurement
tools and lastly, the project closure has been highlighted.

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References
Cameron, E., & Green, M. (2015). Making sense of change management: A complete guide to
the models, tools and techniques of organizational change. Kogan Page Publishers.
Haimes, Y. Y. (2015). Risk modeling, assessment, and management. John Wiley & Sons.
O'brien, J. J. (2013). Construction inspection handbook: Quality assurance/quality control.
Springer Science & Business Media.
Rahschulte, T., Martinelli, R. J., & Milosevic, D. Z. (2016). Project Closure. Project
Management ToolBox, Second Edition, 351-374.
Rice, A. K. (Ed.). (2013). Productivity and social organization: The Ahmedabad experiment:
Technical innovation, work organization and management. Routledge.
Teeratansirikool, L., Siengthai, S., Badir, Y., & Charoenngam, C. (2013). Competitive
strategies and firm performance: the mediating role of performance
measurement. International Journal of Productivity and Performance
Management, 62(2), 168-184.