Chapter 5: Intro To PRINCE2 Themes

Question 1

Name the 7 PRINCE 2 themes

Answer 1

• Business case
• organisation
• quality
• plans
• Risks
• Change
• Progress

Question 2

What does the business case theme address

Answer 2

Why?

This theme addresses how the idea is developed into a viable investment proposition for the organisations objectives throughout the project

Question 3

What does the organisation theme address

Answer 3

Who?

The organisation commissioning the project needs to allocate the work to managers who’ll be responsible for it and steer it to completion

Addresses the roles and responsibilities in the temporary PRINCE2 project management team to manage the project

Question 4

What does the quality theme address

Answer 4

What?

This theme explains his the outline is developed so that all participants understand the quality attributes of the product to be delivered and how project management will ensure that these requirements are delivered

Question 5

What does the plans theme address

Answer 5

How? How much? When?

This theme complements the quality theme by describing the steps required to develop plans and the PRINCE2 techniques that should be applies

The plans must be matched to the needs of the people at various levels of the organisation

Question 6

What does the risk theme address

Answer 6

What if?

Addresses how project management manages uncertainty

Question 7

What does the change theme address

Answer 7

What is the impact?

Addresses how project management assesses and acts upon uses which have a potential impact on any of the baseline aspects of the project

Question 8

What does the progress theme address

Answer 8

Where are we now? Should we carry on?

Addresses ongoing viability of the plans. The decision making process for approving plans, the monitoring of actual performance and the escalation process if events don’t go to plan

Question 9

See info regarding tailoring themes

Answer 9

• A tailored PRINCE2 theme should reflect any tailoring of the processes and terminology
• Tailoring a theme doesn’t necessarily mean rewriting the prince2 theme itself
• In most cases, the themes are implemented through the projects risks, quality, change, control and communication management approaches

When applying the themes, take account of risks and any relevant external factors, such as corporate, portfolio, programme and customer policies and standards and capture them in the project managers approaches

Question 10

Tip - see other side

Answer 10

Processes, procedures and controls through which themes are implemented can become complex. This often creates an unnecessary burden on projects and causes lack of control

• it’s usually better to keep processes and procedures as simple as possible and ensure the project management team really knows how to use the,
• the more knowledgable the team, the lighter the processes, procedures and control can be