Project Progress Control
Daniel Galin · 2018
This chapter explains the methods and procedures that ensure timely performance in a software project: verifying schedule and budget keeping. It discusses the progress control of software development tasks that can be performed by applying the progress control components. The main components of project progress control are control of risk management activities, project schedule control, project resource control and project budget control. The chapter also discusses the difficulties entailed with controlling external participants and internal projects. The difficulties of distributed software development (DSD) and global software development (GSD) projects include communication and coordination difficulties, and in GSD projects, culture differences and insufficient facility of the English language also. Finally the chapter demonstrates the computerized tools for software progress control which include programs for the planning and control of schedule and resource usage, project progress metrics and progress tracking charts.