Progress

• Purpose
• Progress defined
  • What is progress?
  • What are progress controls?
  • Exceptions and tolerances
• The PRINCE2 approach
• Delegating authority
  • The four levels of management
  • Project Board controls
  • Project Manager controls
• Use of management stages for control
  • Overview
  • Number of stages
  • Length of stages
  • Technical stages
• Event driven and time driven controls
  • Overview
  • Baselines for progress control
  • Reviewing progress
  • Capturing and reporting lessons
  • Reporting progress
• Raising exceptions
• Responsibilities

Key sections

• Introduction
• Business case
• Organization
• Quality
• Plans
• Risk
• Change
• Progress
• Introduction to processes
• Starting up a projectDirecting a project
• Initiating a project
• Controlling a stage
• Managing Product Delivery
• Managing a Stage Boundary
• Closing a Project
• Tailoring PRINCE2 to the project environment
• Directing Projects with PRINCE2

The PRINCE2® approach

Delegating authority

Project Board controls

The main controls available to the Project Board include:

The Project Board uses the Directing a Project process to authorize initiation, authorize the project, authorize each stage and, finally, authorize project closure:

• After the pre-project process Starting up a Project, the Project Board authorizes progress to the initiation stage, which is the official ‘start’ of the project
• After the Initiating a Project process, the Project Board reviews the information from the Project Initiation Documentation and, if satisfied that there is sufficient reason to go ahead with the project, can approve the Project Initiation Documentation and authorize the project itself
• After the Managing a Stage Boundary process, the Project Board reviews a Stage Plan or Exception Plan, and can either approve the plan, with its relevant tolerances for the next management stage, or, if there is insufficient justification to continue with the project, trigger premature closure of the project
• After the Closing a Project process, the Project Board reviews the End Project Report and, if satisfied that the project is complete or has nothing more to offer, can authorize its closure

Including Highlight Reports and End Stage Reports

Including Exception Reports and Issue Reports.

When the Project Board has agreed stage tolerances with the Project Manager, it is kept informed of progress by means of Highlight Reports.
There is no need for regular progress meetings during this stage, although personnel with Project Assurance responsibilities will require regular contact with the Project Manager and team members.

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