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Each project can be broken into distinct phases to track the work or to organize the project into distinct deliverables. Phases have always been under the direct control of the project manager and inherited the security level of the project. Project managers may now choose to delegate control over phases to other authorized personnel and to change the security level of phases independent of the project level. If a person is assigned to oversee the phase (a phase manager), they will have the same level of control over their phase as the project manager holds over the project. The phase manager may assign personnel, change the phase schedule, set the security level of the phase, and report progress of the phase against the estimates.

Phases that have been assigned to someone other than the project manager are called “managed phases”. They may be included in the search results on the project page by choosing a new option in the search conditions. Managed phases will also show up in reports as regular phases and all scheduling and actual information will be included in higher level reports as normal. In phase level reports, managed phases are identified in the title as a managed phase of a particular project.