Project Phase vs State

Brenna Doubleda · ‎07-21-2022

Can anyone explain the difference between Project States and Project Phases? It seems that there would be a consistent tie between these, but I can't figure out why they are separate... seems redundant?

Stefano Volta · ‎07-23-2022

State deals with the progress of project and tasks.. draft before start to work and without be prepared to start, open before start to work but ready to start, in progress during work (% between 1 and 99), closed when finished (100%). It works also at task level, and with rrlation between project and its tasks (if you have all draft but put a task in progress, also the project switches to progress). Project Phase has no technical meaning, but functional: you can divide the project in different functional steps, and in particular often you enrich this, to expand "in progress phase": you can put gate phases or any other step, to distinguish the ownershipin that moment of the project (ex. project in progress but waiting approval from portfolio mgr...)

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Yousaf · ‎07-21-2022

Hi Brenna,

Check this article it has answer to your question.

Understanding Project States

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Yousaf · ‎07-21-2022

Read this article and dont forget to come back and hit correct 🙂

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Brenna Doubleda · ‎07-22-2022

Hi Yousef,

I read that article, but still don't think I see the difference. I see that they are different fields in the tool, but can't understand why we would need both. Is there a use case that you could share for keeping them separate rather than just using one or the other? I can't help but feel that they are redundant, but imagine they must be in the tool for a reason.

Yousaf · ‎07-22-2022

In a way you are right but yes they must be there for some reason. i don't have a use case right now. If i find something i will share with you.

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