Progress Theme Flashcards

1
Q

What is the purpose of the progress theme?

A

To establish mechanisms, to monitor and compare actual achievements against those planned

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2
Q

Progress theme ensure’s what:

A

That level above can:

Monitor progress

Compare achievement with plan

Review plans and options against future situations

Detect problems

Identify risks

Initiate corrective action

Authorise further work

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3
Q

Prince2 provides 2 types of controls throughout the project, they are:

A

Time Driven - Highlight and checkpoint report

Event driven - Exception report, end stage report

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4
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Project Board controls are:

A

1) Authorisations of:

Initiation
Project
Stage
Closure

2) Highlight reports, regular updates from the PM during a stage, using info from checkpoint reports

3) Exception reports

4) Issue report

5) Exception assessments

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5
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Project Manager controls are:

A

1) Authorisations - Work packages (Setting work package tolerances)

2) Progress updates - Checkpoint report from TM

3) Exception/Changes

Daily log
Issue register
Product status account
Quality register
Risk register

4) Lessons log - leading to lessons report

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6
Q

What are the 6 categories of tolerances that are primarily set by Corporate management?

A

1) Time
2) Cost
3) Quality
4) Risk
5) Scope
6) Benefit

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7
Q

Where does the Corporate management sit in relation to the project?

A

Outside the project

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8
Q

Who is responsible for setting overall tolerance limits

A

Corporate management

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9
Q

Who will allocate tolerances to each management stage?

A

Project board

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10
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If during the execution of the project plan, it is forecast there will be a deviation from the tolerance, who should report the deviation and why?

A

Project board, for advice from the corporate management for corrective action

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11
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What are the minimum requirements for the Progress theme?

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1) Define its approach to controlling progress in the PID

2) Be managed in stages

3) Set tolerances and be managed by exception against these tolerances

4) Review business justification when exceptions are raised

5) Learn from lessons to improve performance

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12
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Control in the project is provided by:

A

Delegate authority downwards

Dividing project management stages

Time-driven and event driven progress reporting

Raising exceptions

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