Engineering Project Control

Question: Discuss about the Engineering Project Control. Answser: Introduction I agree with the statement that schedule driven projects have not been regarded highly by some project performance analysts and may not be the way to go (Merrow, 2011). According to research, it shows that the high rate of the schedule driven projects is detrimental to the overall site performance. It has been found that the project are likely to incur the high costs, especially to the overruns and even perhaps the safety incidents (Kerzner, 2013). The average schedule driven project usually has five percent higher costs than the equivalent non-schedule driven project (Merrow, 2011). When it comes to the schedule driven project the time is prioritized over other factors such as the elements of the costs, quality, resources as well as the risks (Kwak and Watson, 2005). In most of the cases, the quality should be the first thing to be considered then followed closely by the control cost and the series of scope change. In the case of the schedule driven project most of the cases they do not have a schedule driver (Merrow, 2011). Some could suffer from the late identification or perhaps the late handover to the organization involved to the project that could cause them to become schedule driven, making the project to be rushed. Conclusion Many of the project performance analyst do not regard the project driven as the way to go, since the project could incur high costs, safety incidences and the overrun cost. The analyst advocate a strategic balance in order to set despite the schedule driven mandate for an organization. Focussing on one aspect of the project will not work properly during its life cycle. References Kerzner, H., 2013. Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley Sons. Kwak, Y.H. and Watson, R.J., 2005. Conceptual estimating tool for technology-driven projects: exploring parametric estimating technique. Technovation, 25(12), pp.1430-1436. Merrow, E. W. (2011). Industrial megaprojects: concepts, strategies, and practices for success (Vol. 8). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.