The correct answer is A — Authorize a work package . Within the controlling a stage process, the project manager formally delegates responsibility for producing one or more products through a work package . Authorization establishes the controlled interface between the project manager and the team manager and gives the team manager authority to begin the agreed specialist work.
In this scenario, the request for change has already been approved, BuildyBrick has agreed to produce the promotional video, and its product description has been prepared. The remaining action is therefore to formally instruct the BuildyBrick team manager to commence production. That instruction belongs to the authorize a work package activity.
During authorization, the work package description should be reviewed and co-created as appropriate with the team manager. The project manager confirms relevant products, constraints, tolerances, reporting arrangements, quality requirements, interfaces, and other applicable information before obtaining the team manager’s acceptance and authorizing work to begin.
Option B concerns monitoring an already authorized work package. Option C concerns capturing newly identified issues and risks, whereas the request for change has already been dealt with. Option D involves corrective action within the project manager’s delegated authority when actual or forecast performance requires intervention; it is not the standard mechanism for authorizing new specialist work.
PRINCE2 7 reference topics: Controlling a stage; authorize a work package; work package description; project manager/team manager interface; Ref. 16.4.1.
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