This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.

In this episode you will learn:

- Starting Up a Project (SU) is a pre-project process that produces the Project Brief, which triggers Directing a Project (DP).

- The Project Board uses Directing a Project (DP) to authorize the initiation stage, which formally triggers the Initiating a Project (IP) process.

- The key output of Initiating a Project (IP) is the Project Initiation Documentation (PID), which the board reviews to authorize the project itself.

- During delivery stages, the Project Manager's Controlling a Stage (CS) process runs in parallel with the Team Manager's Managing Product Delivery (MP) process.

- At the end of each stage, the Project Manager uses Managing a Stage Boundary (SB) to prepare reports and plans for the Project Board to authorize the next stage.

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