Essentials of Project Control
Jeffrey K. Pinto, Jeffrey W. Trailer
Project Management Institute
Project managers who regard hall monitors and drill  sergeants as role models need to spend some time with Essentials of  Project Control. This book civilizes and humanizes the conventional  view of control. No longer the bad boy in a manager’s plan-organize-  direct-control job description, modern control envelops us like the  wise advice of a country doctor. We readily comply with the doctor’s  sensible prescription because it is good for us, and it works.    Essentials of Project Control contains 13 articles published between  1985 and 1998 in the Project Management Journal® and PM  Network®. Chosen and organized by Pinto and Trailer, the two-to-ten  page selections are best read consecutively. There is a thoughtful  integration of ideas, and the articles flow and build nicely upon each  other. This is the second book in Project Management Institute’s  (PMI®) Editors’ Choice Series, a reprint series designed to supplement  the Project Management Body of Knowledge.