 <p>No, you can't skip phases. The <code>mvn phase-x</code> command always means "run all phases until phase-x, inclusive". Some plugins, however can detect if there have been changes since their last execution and decide (on their own) not to run &mdash; the subsequent build is faster.</p> <p>I'm not sure what exactly you want to achieve &mdash; perhaps you could take a look at <a href="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/" rel="nofollow">Maven assembly plugin</a>?</p>