Controlling A Stage CS
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A process in the PRINCE2 project management methodology. It concerns the day-to-day management of a stage by the Project Manager. What is it? The project manager has the authority to run the project, day to day on behalf of the Project Board. The Controlling a Stage (CS) process is the construct in which this is handled. The aims of the stage are:-
Why? Although the project manager has control of the day-to-day running of the project, the work still has to be conducted within a structured framework The project manager also needs to know who will do the work and when it will be done. Then he needs to keep track of progress and prepare to keep the project board updated. Who The project manager quite clearly is the main person. A number of other people are involved though in making the process work. The project board triggers the process by the sub-process Authorising a Stage or Exception Plan. Then there are the people or teams actually allocated the Work Packages. Finally the people who feed the information back up and collate it forthe project manager to write reports. How As with all the processes in PRINCE2, CS is split into sub-processes.
A number of management products should result from the process.
As with everything in PRINCE2, not all projects will need all these sub-processes to be worked through exhaustively. The level to which each one is conducted should be appropriate to the project undertaken. The consequences of not doing so is that PRINCE2 becomes a box-ticking exercise.
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