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 Manager controls

The main controls available to the Project Manager include:

Project Manager authorizations occur during the process Controlling a Stage (see the section covering ‘Controlling a stage’).
The Project Manager will be responsible for agreeing and authorizing Work Packages and Work Package tolerances.

Including Checkpoint Reports produced by Team Managers or team members.

Use of project registers and logs to review progress and identify issues and risks that may need to be resolved. These are discussed further in section ‘Use of management stages for control’.

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