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What Is Project Controls?

Project Controls is an essential function across many industries. Project Controls professionals are responsible for managing the achievement of successful project and program outcomes with positive outcomes for cost, time, and performance.

Though the specifics vary by industry and project, Project Controls is generally defined as the “data gathering, data management and analytical processes used to predict, understand and constructively influence the time and cost outcomes of a project or program through the communication of information in formats that assist effective management and decision making."*

*Source: Project Controls Online