Highlight Report
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Preparation
A formal Report to the Board on the status of a PRINCE2™ Project. It is prepared, usually on a regular basis, by Project Support for the Project Manager. It is assembled by consolidating the Checkpoint Reports prepared by Team Leaders. Detailed information about the Project's Status is also produced by consolidating the summary rows of:
- 1. Activity Status Reports into Workpackage Status Tables
- 2. Workpackage Status Tables into Stage Status Reports, and
- 3. Stage Status Reports into a Project Status Tables.
Contents
It will have two parts:
- a summary of the overall status and prospects for a Project. This summary must include a review of the continuing validity of the Business Case for the Project
- a report on the status of each of the Stage(s) of the Project (see Stage Status Report). A Stage will be:
- completed and closed
- currently open (only one Stage may be open at a time)
- yet to be started.
For Stages that have yet to be started the information provided will be limited to what is available in the appropriate Stage Plan.
For completeness, a Financial Status Report should be attached as an Appendix.
Non-routine reporting
A Project Manager is also required to report on particular non-routine situations, and for these the appropriate Reports are:
- an Exception Report needed when an Exception Condition has been found
- an End Stage Report
- an End Project Report (which can include a final Financial Status Report, a Lessons Learned Report and a Follow-on Actions Report).
Sources of Information
Much of the information that goes into a Highlight Report will come from the Checkpoint Reports submitted by the Team Leaders. However these will be augmented by information from a number of other sources, including the Risk, Issues, Quality and Configuration Folders, the Daily Log; the Project Control Folders and the other Project Files.
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The following Product Templates are available:
- For PRINCE2™ Projects only:
- a Word skeleton document called "Highlight Report", which provides a framework for the consolidation into a Project Status Table of the supporting Stage Status Table(s), Workpackage Status Tables and Activity Status Reports
- for all Projects:
- an Excel Form called the Project Status Table, whose layout supports consolidation of the Stage Status Table(s), Workpackage Status Tables, and Activity Status Reports, by copy and paste of their (grey) summary rows.
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