Feedback control in project-based management

Project management is a well-known management technique that has gained success because it encourages better organization and good engineering practice. This technique is also being used at CERN where projects are managed by engineers. They usually find themselves not at ease with a methodology and a jargon that are typical of an economical context. This paper presents a different approach to the project-based management. The notion of feedback control theory is introduced to help engineers in the organization and the supervision of the project, as well as to provide a context that is more familiar to them. This new approach is illustrated for the Antiproton Deceleration Access Control project.