A young professor becomes obsessed with the latest release of Halo and completely loses sight of his research commitment to his colleagues, falling hopelessly behind schedule and consuming 80% of the department's computing budget. Addictive behavior notwithstanding, this sad tale would never have happened had .

Trend monitoring been regularly performed.

Explanation:

A young professor becomes obsessed with the latest release of Halo and completely loses sight of his research commitment to his colleagues, falling hopelessly behind schedule and consuming 80% of the department's computing budget. Addictive behavior notwithstanding, this sad tale would never have happened had trend monitoring been regularly performed.

Control checks, process monitoring and proper performance analysis been put in place.

Explanation:

The case of the young professor is obviously the case of misplace priorities.

But for better clarity, let us define what a control check is, process monitoring and performance analysis:

Control checks: This is basically the process of periodically testing the effectiveness of a process to make sure it is performing or acting as designed.

Process Monitoring: This is basically the process of evaluating the extent of utilization of available resources against the level of actualization of set goals. It is basically a stage where we confirm if the level of available resources of been utilized judiciously.

Performance Analysis: This stage is relatively related to process monitoring. However, it is a continuum of the previous stages. it is a phase where we evaluate the performance of the individual undertaking the project against set objectives. This stage has to do more with the personnel involves in the project while process monitoring has to do more with the tools being used.

Relating this back to the question asked, if these there parameters were initially put in place, the sad tale would never had happened.

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