PRINCE2 · pillar 3 of 5
The seven processes
Who does what, when — and the two that people most often conflate.
- 7 Starting up is not initiating Starting up a project is pre-project: it asks whether the project is worthwhile and viable, and produces an outline…
- 8 Controlling a stage and managing product delivery Controlling a stage is the project manager's day-to-day work: authorising work packages, monitoring, dealing with…
- 9 Stage boundaries and closure Managing a stage boundary gives the board what it needs to decide whether to continue: the current stage's performance…
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Sources: Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2, 7th edition (PeopleCert, 2023), PRINCE2 7 glossary. Written from those texts and last checked on against reporting on them — not read line by line against the primary documents. Every card names the clause it comes from precisely so you can settle it at the source, and [email protected] is where a correction goes.
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