Project Phase vs State

[Brenna Doubleda]

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 · Accepted solution]

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...)