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

Event-driven and time-driven controls

PRINCE2® provides two types of progress control throughout the life of a project:

Take place when a specific event occurs.
This could be, for example, the end of a stage, the completion of the Project Initiation Documentation or the creation of an Exception Report.
It could also include organizational events that might affect the project, such as the end of the financial year.

Take place at predefined periodic intervals.
This could be, for example, producing monthly Highlight Reports for the Project Board or weekly Checkpoint Reports showing the progress of a Work Package.

Monitoring and reporting requires a time-based approach, whereas control (decision making) is an event-based activity.
The following sections describe the management products that are used to establish and execute event-driven and time-driven controls.

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