Getting Started with Mission Control

Before you can manage controls, someone on your team needs to define objectives, risks, and controls in projects, and assign you access to the appropriate projects in the Projects app.

To view control tasks information in Mission Control, control performance schedules must be defined in the Projects app.

Permissions

Control attributes

Users with the following permissions can update control attributes in Mission Control:

• Contributor Managers, Professional Users, Professional Managers

• Contributor Testers or Contributor Users, but only if they are also the Owner or Executive Owner of the objective, or the Owner of the control

  • The Owner or the Executive Owner of the objective has read and write access to all controls within the objective

  • Being the Owner of a control allows read and write access to that control only

• Oversight Executives and Oversight Reviewers have read-only access to control attributes.

Testing attributes

Users with the following permissions can update testing attributes in Mission Control:

• Professional Users, Professional Managers

• Contributor Testers, but only if they are also the Owner or Executive Owner of the objective, or the Owner of the control

  Note

  A Contributor Tester can see all testing rounds within a control if that user is the Assigned User for at least one round of testing within that control.

• Oversight Executives and Oversight Reviewers have read-only access to testing attributes.

What the icons mean for control design and control operation

The following icons represent the evaluation of a control walkthrough or test:

Icon	Control design (walkthrough)	Control operation (test)
	Designed appropriately	Operating effectively
	Design failure	Exceptions noted
	Not tested	Not tested
		Not applicable