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

Capturing and reporting lessons

The following management products are used for capturing and reporting lessons when reviewing progress:

One of the principles of a PRINCE2® project is that the project management team learns from experience, which means that lessons are sought, recorded and actioned throughout.
It is often in the reviewing of progress that lessons are identified.
Lessons could include information about management or specialist processes, products, techniques or procedures that either made a contribution to the project’s achievements or caused a problem - for example, the performance of the project management team, the success of tailoring PRINCE2 to the project, or the analysis of quality statistics and measurements.

Although lessons may be identified and recorded during a project, learning lessons involves taking action to implement improvements.
These actions may apply to the current project, in which case they should be incorporated into the appropriate plans and Work Packages, or they may be relevant to different projects.
If a lesson is significant and has relevance for future projects, it should be included in the Lessons Report.

It is important to note that actions to learn lessons can be taken, and the Lessons Report created, at any appropriate time during a project.
As a minimum, however, a Lessons Report should be produced during the Closing a Project process.

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