Monitoring and Control

RDA
Submitted byAnkit Kumar Varshney
Sandip Sharma
Somal Kant
Arijit Hawlader

What is Monitoring and control?

Monitoring and Control are opposite sides of selection
and planning
- Our bases of selection tells us what to monitor.
- Planning stage identifies the elements to control.
Monitoring
collection, recording,
and reporting of
information

Control
using monitored
information to align
actual performance with
the plan

Closed loop
process

Planningmonitoringcontrolling
effort often
minimized to
spend time
on the real
work

Plan-monitor-control

Plan-monitor-control

Plan-Monitor-Control Cycle

Designing the
monitoring
system
Identify special characteristics of
performance, cost, and time that
need to be controlled
performance characteristics should
be set for each level of detail in the
project

Real-time data should be collected

and compared against plans
mechanisms to collect this data must
be designed

Project Authorization and Expenditure Control

System Information Flow

Formats of Data
Frequency Counts
- complaints, number of time project is
late, days without accident etc.
Raw Numbers
-Dates, dollars, hours, physical amount
of resources etc.
Subjective Numeric Ratings
- Ranking of a quality
Indicators
- Response to change
Verbal Characterizations
- quality of team member cooperation,
morale of team members etc.

Number of Bugs per Unit of Test Time