I also agree with the others, the capstone class is a great example and experience of monitoring and controlling. During my project, there were many times were we fell behind schedule mainly because of our code and electrical components did not cooperate with one another. As required by the class we created a high level schedule and made priorities of what needs to be done, and present what we accomplished, every week. Additionally we also had issues of defective part that were shipped from Europe. The problem was getting new parts and sending parts back was too time consuming. As a result, we had to manipulate our budget so we can go out for replica products. In the end we accomplished our goal by staying under budget and meeting all requirements.