CHAPTER 8: CONTROLLING A STAGE
Work packages: Authorise a work package
Description:
If people who are working on the project were to start activities whenever they thought fit, it would be chaotic. There must be a level of autonomy with the project team(s), but there will be wider issues involved of which they cannot be expected to be aware. It is therefore important that work only commences and continues with the consent of the project manager. The vehicle for this is the production, execution and delivery of a work package.
What this means
For a project manager to remain in control of a management stage, they must know what is happening in that stage at all times. Using work packages, they can decide how and when to authorise work to begin, ...
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