The key benefit of the Monitoring and Controlling Process Group is the ability to:

A.
establish and manage project communication channels, both external and internal
to the project team.

B.
influence the stakeholders that want to circumvent integrated change control so
that their changes are implemented.

C.
monitor the ongoing project team against the team performance assessments and
the project performance baseline.

D.
observe and measure project performance regularly and consistently to identify
variances from the project management plan.