Mastering Project Controls: Foundations for Predictable Project Performance — Digital PDF

Build the control environment that helps leadership see problems early enough to act.

Project controls is not simply reporting—it is the integrated discipline that connects cost, schedule, risk, change, and leadership decision-making. In this practical guide, Patrick Mouna draws on more than four decades across LNG, upstream, petrochemical, and major capital projects to explain how credible controls are established, operated, and used to protect project outcomes.

This concise digital edition is written for professionals who want practical guidance grounded in real major-project experience. It can be read from beginning to end or used as a focused reference for the challenge in front of you.

What this guide covers

• Establishing the project-controls plan, WBS, CBS, coding structures, systems, and accountabilities
• Developing defensible estimates and budgets with a clear basis of estimate
• Building and maintaining logic-driven project schedules
• Improving cost control, forecasting, and early-warning visibility
• Integrating risk and change management with cost and schedule
• Designing concise portfolio reporting and decision-focused dashboards
• Applying lessons from major LNG and upstream project environments

Who this is for

• Project controls managers, cost engineers, planners, schedulers, and risk professionals
• Project managers and senior leaders who need clearer performance visibility
• Engineers moving into project services or project-controls roles
• Experienced professionals preparing for broader leadership responsibility

What you will receive

• One professionally prepared, searchable 33-page PDF digital book
• Immediate digital access after successful purchase and payment
• A clean customer-facing filename with embedded title and author metadata
• Educational content by Patrick Mouna, published by PMP Digital Creations

About the author

Patrick Mouna is a senior Projects Business and Project Services professional with more than four decades of international experience across major LNG, upstream, petrochemical, and capital-project environments. His work has spanned owner/operator, engineering, EPC, and project organizations across six continents.

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