What are advantages and disadvantages of the various controls?

Answer 1

* Forces people to think about what they are doing * Creates a certain amount of structure * Allows a way to track progress and risks * An easy way to disseminate the status * Uses time that could be used on doing the work instead of reportingabout it * Can be misleading if not implemented properly * Can be misleading of condensed wrongly * Some people concentrate on "how it'll look in the report" instead of trying to achieve the project goal