Additional Information
Extract from the Communication Management Strategy.
The project information in the table below is true, but it may not be recorded under the correct
heading or be in the correct document.
Using the Project Scenario, select the appropriate response to each of the following 5 questions
which have been raised by the Project Board.
The project is now at the end of the initiation stage. Having decided that the Calendar project is a
relatively simple project, the Project Manager combined the Starting Up a Project process and the
Initiating a Project process. No Project Brief has been produced. Instead the Project Manager
used the project mandate to produce a simple Project Initiation Documentation (PlO). The PlO
includes the Business Case, a product checklist and several Product Descriptions, Including the
Project Product Description. Short sections are also included for each of the strategies and the
controls to be applied. The Project Manager has elected to use the Daily Log to record all risks,
issues, lessons and quality – results.
After the initiation stage there will be two further stages during which a small number of Work
Packages will be authorized. While these are being managed, the Project Manager will hold
regular checkpoints, which will support the production of weekly Highlight Reports to the Project
Board.
There is no mention of any Stage Plans, yet there are two further stages proposed. How will this
be resolved?
A.
It is appropriate for the Calendar project to be run as two further stages as there is a key
decision to be made at the end of stage 2. Stage Plans will be produced.
B.
Whilst the activities are divided into two further stages, there is no reason why the Calendar
project should use stages. The project will therefore be run as a single stage project and the
activities will be added to the Initiation Stage Plan.
C.
There will be three Stage Plans, the two management stages plus an additional stage to plan
and complete the activities of the Closing a Project process.