Progress Theme Flashcards
What is the purpose of the progress theme?
To establish mechanisms, to monitor and compare actual achievements against those planned
Progress theme ensure’s what:
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
Prince2 provides 2 types of controls throughout the project, they are:
Time Driven - Highlight and checkpoint report
Event driven - Exception report, end stage report
Project Board controls are:
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
Project Manager controls are:
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
What are the 6 categories of tolerances that are primarily set by Corporate management?
1) Time
2) Cost
3) Quality
4) Risk
5) Scope
6) Benefit
Where does the Corporate management sit in relation to the project?
Outside the project
Who is responsible for setting overall tolerance limits
Corporate management
Who will allocate tolerances to each management stage?
Project board
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?
Project board, for advice from the corporate management for corrective action
What are the minimum requirements for the Progress theme?
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
Control in the project is provided by:
Delegate authority downwards
Dividing project management stages
Time-driven and event driven progress reporting
Raising exceptions
