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Workbook page 179

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Information hierarchy

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Introduction
● What is progress?
● The measure of achieving the plan's objectives
● Controls help monitor progress, detect problems and authorise
work

● Progress steps

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Management products
● Checkpoint Report Manual 238
● Team Manager reports the status of a Work Package
Workbook 187
● End Project Report
● Reviews project performance against the PID Manual 243
● End Stage Report Workbook 197
● Summary of progress for the stage
Manual 244
● Exception Report
● When a Stage or Project Plan is forecast to Workbook 194
exceed tolerances
Manual 245

Workbook 196

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Management products
● Highlight Report Manual 245
● Project Manager reports the status of a stage
Workbook 189
● Lessons Log
● For lessons that apply to this project or future Manual 248
projects
Workbook 191
● Lessons Report
● To pass on lessons to be applied to other projects Manual 249

● Work Package Workbook 192

● Information to pass on to a Team Manager/member
to produce products Manual 261

Workbook 184

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Tolerance areas
● Time dates for completion
● Cost budget boundaries
● Scope permitted variation should be defined in plans
● Risk limitations of total or
individual threats
● Quality tolerances against
quality criteria
● Benefit range from baseline

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Control
● Delegating authority
● Dividing the project into stages
● Requiring time and event driven reporting
● Allocating tolerances and raising exceptions

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Control
● Management stages
● Partitions of the project with management decision points
● Provide Project Board ability to assess viability
● Length & number determined by: risk, complexity, resource
commitment, point within project lifecycle, planning horizon
● Technical stages focused on specialist skills
● Event & time driven control
● Based on something happening eg: Exception Report
● Occur on a regular basis eg: Highlight Report

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Review
● Project Manager reviews logs and registers etc.
● Lessons are learned, captured and reported
● Capturing and reporting lessons
● Reporting via Highlight, Checkpoint, End Stage & End Project
Reports.

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Exceptions
● Work Package
● The Team Manager should inform the Project Manager by raising
an issue
● Stage Plan
● May produce an Issue Report then Exception Report
● Project Plan
● May produce an Issue Report then Exception Report for the
Project Board who may escalate it to corporate/programme
management

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Exceptions

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Principles
● Continued business justification
● Learn from experience
● Defined roles and responsibilities
● Manage by stages
● Manage by exception
● Focus on products
● Tailor to suit project environment

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