How to Monitor & Control a TPM Project Since a project plan is a system, it can get out of balance. For this reason, controls should be designed to discover out-of-balance early and put measures to put the project in the right way. You can use a variety of reports as control tools but using graphics is the most preferred since it doesn’t need a lot of reading. As the project work is underway, you need to establish a reporting system that ensures that it proceeds according to plan by keeping you informed of the various variables as compared to the plan. This reporting system can be established by choosing from among the hundreds of reports that are standard fare regarding the administration software packages. There are five types of project status reports which includes: current periods reports that reports on activities that were open during the period, cumulative reports that contains the history of the project from the launch up to the closing stages of the present report ...