Get a general overview of the processes and tasks involved in monitoring and controlling a project that is being executed.
The next step is to monitor and control the schedule.
This is one execution, you have to choose a uniform time interval for periodic updating. You update every week, every other week and make it regular. You don't wait until things go wrong and then update it. No, you have to update even when things are fine or nothing wrong with the schedule, you still have to update.
And then you have to define it from the very beginning, what are the update procedures? Like, for example, the subcontractors would report to the general contractors who would combine all that in one update. You know, every company has certain procedures that have to be defined, have to be communicated very clearly to all parties.
You have to educate and enforce. In fact, I remember this, three E's, we learned in engineering: engineer, educate, and enforce. Before you enforce anything, you have to make sure that you have communicated and educated people about the procedure and addressed any concern.
You have to do reporting and documentation of the schedule. Documentation is extremely important for you. You may not find that out until two years later when you are hit with a claim.
You have to implement any changes, whether these changes are routine, happen during the progress of the project, or they are like a change order.
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