Prince 8 Flashcards
What is the purpose of the plans theme?
Provide a framework to design, develop and maintain the Project Plans.
What are the 3 levels of plans recommended?
Project plan, stage plan and team plan.
What do you tell someone who tells you that Prince2 is not agile?
Prince2 offers a comprehensive framework to projects. Is it not agile? Firstly, one of the core principles in Prince2 is that of tailoring - the framework must be tailored for the specific project. If the projects aims to construct an 800 million dollar FPSO and deploy it 200 km of shore, there is a limit to how agile you should be. For IT projects it may be very different. A signigicant proportion of the Prince2 framework revolves around planning. The use of so called stage boundaries and decision points are essential. It’s about continously ensuring business justification. Prince2 does not require a waterfall process.
How would you document project scope and discuss with senior user?
Product Breakdown Structure.
Which questions does a plan answer? Very basic
The why, what, who, when, and how much.
What are the 7 steps in planning?
1) Design plan (choose style and format)
2) Define and analyse products (PBP)
3) Identify activities and dependencies
4) Prepare estimates (time and resources)
5) Prepare schedule
6) Document the plan
7) Review and uncover “new” risks
What is PBS? And what’s its purpose?
Product Breakdown Structure? Is made to provide a hierarchical overview of the product. Can be a diagram or an indented list for example.
What are the 4 steps in product based planning (PBP)? Remember that this is step 2 of the 7 steps in planning.
1) Writing Project Product Description (SU process)
2) Creating the Product Breakdown Structure
3) Writing the Product Description
4) Creating the product flow diagram (product flow and interdependencies)
Chapter 9… what are the 7 responses to risks (threats not oportunities).
Avoid (completely mitigate), reduce (impact or probability), fallback (contingency plan), transfer (insurance), share (f.ex. share costs between customer and supplier), accept.
