Effective Project Control & Performance Assurance

What Will You Gain?ALTAWAIL Consulting & Training, a PMI Authorized Training Partner (PMI ATP), offers the “Effective Project Control and Performance Assurance” course, through which participants will gain practical experience in applying integrated project control methods and linking scope, schedule, and cost information with project risks, changes, and governance requirements. They will learn to apply Earned Value Management (EVM), analyze performance variances and trends, forecast project outcomes, and transform project data into reliable insights that support informed decision-making. The course will also strengthen their ability to lead evidence-based performance review meetings, communicate performance concerns effectively, engage stakeholders, and guide corrective actions to help keep projects on track. Participants who complete the course may claim 18 Professional Development Units (PDUs).

• Explain the purpose and principles of project control and performance assurance.
• Establish an integrated project-control framework with defined roles, responsibilities and escalation thresholds.
• Develop and validate integrated scope, schedule and cost baselines.
• Establish appropriate progress-measurement methods and performance indicators.
• Apply earned value management to evaluate schedule and cost performance.
• Analyze project variances, trends and underlying causes.
• Forecast final project costs and evaluate schedule trends.
• Integrate risk, issue and change information into project-control processes.
• Evaluate the accuracy, completeness and reliability of project-performance information.
• Develop clear project dashboards and performance reports.
• Communicate schedule delays, cost overruns and performance concerns constructively.
• Facilitate evidence-based performance-review discussions.
• Influence stakeholders to support corrective and recovery actions.
• Conduct structured project performance-assurance reviews.
• Recommend corrective and recovery actions based on performance evidence.
• Develop and monitor practical project-recovery plans.
• Support governance bodies in making informed financial and strategic decisions.

Target Audience This course is designed for professionals involved in project delivery, including project managers, project-control specialists, planners, schedulers, cost engineers, earned value specialists, PMO staff, governance teams, program or portfolio managers, project sponsors, as well as those responsible for monitoring or improving project performance.

• Integrated project-control framework design
• Scope, schedule, and cost baseline management
• Project performance measurement using Earned Value Management
• Variance, trend, and root-cause analysis
• Project outcome forecasting and estimate reliability assessment
• Integration of risks, issues, and changes into project-control processes
• Performance dashboard development and decision-focused reporting
• Structured performance-assurance reviews
• Performance-review facilitation and stakeholder engagement
• Corrective-action and project-recovery planning
• Governance support through reliable financial and strategic insights

• Instructor-led explanations and facilitated discussions
• Practical exercises using project-control data
• Group workshops and scenario-based activities
• An integrated project case study
• Knowledge checks and an end-of-course assessment

Remarks This course is delivered by ALTAWAIL Consulting & Training, a PMI Authorized Training Partner (ATP). Participants who complete the program may claim 18 Professional Development Units (PDUs) toward maintaining PMI certifications through the PMI Continuing Certification Requirements (CCR) Program.

• Ways of Working: 12 PDUs
• Power Skills: 2 PDUs
• Business Acumen: 4 PDUs
• Total: 18 PDUs

• Purpose and principles of integrated project control
• Relationship between control, governance and assurance
• Control cycle, roles, responsibilities and escalation thresholds
• Data quality, control governance, and decision-making authority

• Scope, schedule and cost integration
• Baseline development, validation and control
• Progress-measurement methods and rules of credit
• Performance indicators and reporting frequency

• Planned value, earned value and actual cost
• Schedule and cost performance indices
• Schedule and cost variance interpretation
• Root-cause and trend analysis

• Forecast final project costs and evaluate schedule trends.
• Estimate at completion and estimate to complete
• Trend-based and scenario-based forecasting
• Evaluating forecast reliability and confidence

• Connecting risks, issues and changes to baselines
• Assessing the impact of risks on the project schedule and cost
• Change impact analysis and control decisions
• Maintaining traceability across control information

• Dashboard design and executive reporting
• Exception reporting and escalation
• Reliable management information that supports decision-making
• Supporting governance and investment decisions

• Assurance scope, criteria and evidence
• Testing accuracy, completeness and reliability
• Structured performance-review discussions
• Findings, recommendations and follow-up

• Selecting corrective and recovery actions
• Recovery planning and prioritization
• Stakeholder alignment and constructive review of performance assumptions and decisions
• Monitoring recovery results through an integrated case study