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

Responsibilities

Below outlines the responsibilities relevant to the Progress theme.
For further details of project management team roles and their associated responsibilities see the folder ‘Roles and responsibilities’ as part of the product packages.

Corporate or programme management

Provide project tolerances and document them in the project mandate.
Make decisions on Exception Plans when project-level tolerances are forecast to be exceeded.

Executive

Provide stage tolerances.
Ensure that progress towards the outcome remains consistent from the business perspective.
Make decisions on Exception Plans when stage-level tolerances are forecast to be exceeded.
Recommend future action on the project to corporate or programme management if the project tolerance is forecast to be exceeded.

Senior User

Ensure that progress towards the outcome remains consistent from the user perspective.

Senior Supplier

Ensure that progress towards the outcome remains consistent from the supplier perspective.

Project Manager

Authorize Work Packages.
Monitor progress against Stage Plans.
Produce Highlight Reports, End Stage Reports , Lessons Reports and End Project Report.
Produce Exception Reports for the Project Board when stage-level tolerances are forecast to be exceeded.
Maintain the project’s registers and logs.

Team Manager

Agree Work Packages with the Project Manager.
Inform Project Support of completed quality activities.
Produce Checkpoint Reports.
Notify the Project Manager of any forecast deviation from Work Package tolerances.

Project Assurance

Verify the Business Case against external events and project progress.
Verify changes to the Project Plan to see whether there is any impact on the needs of the business or the Business Case.
Confirm stage and project progress against agreed tolerances.

Project Support

Assist with the compilation of reports.
Contribute specialist tool expertise (for example, planning and control tools).
Number, record, store and distribute Issue Reports and Exception Reports.
Assist the Project Manager in maintaining the Issue Register and Risk Register. Maintain the Quality Register on behalf of the Project Manager.

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