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An Introduction to PRINCE2

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3.11 CS: Controlling a Stage

Project
Notification

Closure
Notification
close soon

Directing a Project (DP)


Authorize a Stage
or Exception Plan

Work Package
Work Package

Work Package
Completed WP

Notification -- Notification
Auth.

Managing Product Delivery (MP)

-- Authorization

Mgmt Prod -- Management Product


Based on OGC PRINCE2 material. Reproduced under license from OGC

Pre-Project

Initiation

Advice

Premature Close

(SB) Managing a
Stage Boundary

Highlight Reports

Exception Report

End Stage Report


Next Stage Plan
or Exception Plan

Controlling a Stage (CS)

-- Once during project


-- Once per stage
-- Many times during stage
-- Once per Work Package

Auth. project
closure

Give ad hoc
direction

(Issue / Change & Risk)

Authorize stage

Authorize Project
Approved PID

Authorize
the project

Project Init Doc


Req. Deliver Project?

Project Starts

Auth. To Initiate

Project Brief + IS Plan

Req. to Initiate a Project

Authorize
initiation

Closure Recommend.
End Project Report
FAR, Lessons Rpt
Draft Closure Notificat.

Initiation
Notification

Initiating a
Project (IP)
Delivery
Team Manager

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Corporate or Programme Management

Project
mandate

Starting up a Project (SU)

Management
Project Manager

Direction
Project Board

Corp..

The process Controlling a Stage is where the Project Manager does most of their day-to-day work.
As mentioned before, all items in green happen once during a stage and a project can have many
stages. You can also see that most of the activity in the Controlling a Stage process happens in the
Management Level.

Closing a
project (CP)

MP Outputs
Team Plans
Checkpoint Reports
Quality Register
Completed WP

Products get created & quality checked

Stages - Execution

Fig 3.13 Controlling a Stage


The trigger for the Controlling a Stage process comes always from the Project Board Activity
Authorize a Stage or Exception Plan.
Each Controlling a Stage process ends by triggering the process Managing a Stage Boundary,
except for the last stage, which most of the time is directly followed by the Closing a Project
process.
Next, I will describe the relationship between Controlling a Stage and Managing Product Delivery,
and the activity Authorize a Stage or Exception Plan.

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