Management Stages x Technical Stages

In this podcast, Ricardo differentiates technical stages from management stages. He explains that usually we divide our projects in technical stages to prepare the project schedule where we can drive more than one stage simultaneously, whereas, according to Prince2®, the project is divided into stages that can not be conducted simultaneously, where the manager and the board of the project decide at the end of each stage if the project will continue or not, as the results achieved so far.

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Hello everybody welcome to the five minutes PM. Podcast do they like to discuss with you the concept of that? Can you call an Management Stages a lot of people know and use only the concept of Technical stage. What do I mean by that? When you prepare the WPS, when you were defining the scope of your projects, what do you do? You usually divide the project in two main groups and this groups are usually, but is it on the technical aspect of your project?

For example, if you are building a home or a new house, you have Fundations electrical, hydraulic call a phone and internet roof. So at all of these bricks painting and all of this art Technical Stages, and you prepare your skeletal or your gun chart, your network using this Technical Stages below this technical, Stages the work that out packages and the work and the tasks, whatever.

And that like to offer you one idea. Why don't you think in Management Stages I first heard about this in Prince two concepts brings to has a very strong concept of Management Stages what is the Management state? He is when you take your project and you, we split your project in two or more, Stages in, Today more parts and this parts they don't meet to be in the same time interval I can split in one's lice of 10 days.

The second stage is three months. The term Stages foremost, and the fourth stage is five days. So they don't need to be exactly the same size they are. Management Stages. But one very important thing that distinguish the Management Stages in the Technical state is that the Technical Stages they can overlap. I can have two Stages at this same time I can do from the nations.

And I can do math, maybe some work with Matt work or something with iron or something like that. Or I can do the roof and a helmet Truco installations at the same time, but the manager Stages are not, they do not overlap. So if my project has one ear, it will be okay. One month, four, the initiation of the project, then three months for stage two and foremost for stage three and days for stage four, but they will never overlap every single day in the project.

I will know in which Management Stages, I'm working with and Y this, because why we needed to do to create a Management Stages because the Management stage we'll help the project manager, Anne oldest sponsor the Zachary, Steve, and the board and the decision making group of the project to evaluate. So its like a gait. So when I finish or when I'm close to finished one Management, Stages what I need to do.

I will check the results of that stage. So if I'm managing by Stages what I can do easily. I can set up reports, special reports, more in deep report to show two, the stakeholders, the progress, two present to this key stakeholders. The feel to work that must be done. It will be also an opportunity for all the people with power inside the project to decide if we should continue on it or not that.

And therefor that effort. So its a time imagined that you were a diver, its the time that you go out and breath and bring new air and think where you are before you go deep again into the SI to do one more Management stage. So this, the approach will help you despite if you are using Prince to, or if you are not using this, this is a very good practice that you can put in place and improve the results.

This will help you in the communication planning will help you to define better the scope. It will help you deliver better quality product or you can split some Technical Stages so they can fit on the Management Stages but this is not required. The Management Stages you will split the project based it on the relevance of the products that you are putting in place. So you can maybe prepare a Management Stages called constructions and this Management Stages all construction past three, four, five Technical Stages or you can have one Technical Stages that is very long and you can split this in technical stage or phase one phase to phase three.

So this we'll be based on your skills to prepare the scope part, to develop your double, be a short, but this will be a great to, for you to make you aware that from time to time, you need to understand and see the results that you were delivering in the future of results that you are committed with. So I hope this can help you and make at least you think this week, okay? Maybe with this new idea, you can improve and increase the success rate of what you are doing.

I hope you enjoyed this podcast and see you next week with another five minutes BM Podcast.

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