Abstract
The aim of the article is to present the views of domestic and foreign authors on the genesis of project controlling and importance of that idea for the success of implemented projects, as well as its evolution in relation to project management and the attempt to classify it from the point of view of accepted analysis criteria. Controlling as a business management tool in Europe gained in importance scarcely in the second half of the twentieth century, although its beginnings fall on the medieval period. Authors of numerous studies in this field point to various sources of controlling and controller concepts, mainly due to the cultural, economic and historical conditions of shaping the role and scope of information use for project management. In the initial period of use, controlling was primarily focused on the objectives of ongoing project management, but nowadays interest in controlling oriented towardsthe needs of strategic (long–term) management is becoming more and more noticeable. Nowadays, the idea of project controlling is recommended for implementation both in large, medium–sized and small business entities as well as public institutions. In relation to project management, it may include comparative activities of planned and actual values in current operations as well as undertaking activities of regulation, management, control or other related to information needs of the senior management and key project stakeholders.
Highlights
Controlling is one of the cross–cutting phases of a project’s life cycle, including in its scope defining, planning, implementation and completion of work and the issues related to it are becoming increasingly important in the implementation of projects
Attempts are made to transfer the concepts of controlling the current activity of an organization to the area of project management, which raises a number of ambiguities and misunderstandings, because the implementation of projects usually does not coincide with the company’s process activities
The research methods adopted in the article were based on the analysis of the existing data based on the desk research approach and the critical analysis of Polish– and foreign–language literature, focusing on the subject of project controlling
Summary
Controlling is one of the cross–cutting phases of a project’s life cycle, including in its scope defining, planning, implementation and completion of work and the issues related to it are becoming increasingly important in the implementation of projects. The reason is i.a. the growing pressure to use coherent ways of collecting information about the implementation of projects, in relation to their financial dimension and in other aspects, such as resources, schedule or defined scope of work. In each of these perspectives, new approaches are being sought that can provide the project manager with even more accurate information on the tasks being performed and their impact on the degree of meeting the expectations of key project stakeholders. The research methods adopted in the article were based on the analysis of the existing data based on the desk research approach and the critical analysis of Polish– and foreign–language literature, focusing on the subject of project controlling
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