Project Planning Monitoring and Tracking

• The main goal of monitoring is for project managers to get visibility into the project execution so that they can determine whether any action needs to be taken to ensure that the project goals are met.
• The three main levels of monitoring are

1. Activity-level monitoring ensures that each activity in the detailed schedule has been done properly and within time.
2. Status reports are often prepared weekly to to take stock of what has happened and what needs to be done. Status reports typically contain a summary of the activities successfully completed
3. The milestone analysis is done at each milestone or every few weeks.