PRINCE2 Flashcards
What´s minimum requirements for applying the business case theme?
To be following Prince2, a project must, as a minimum:
- Create and maintain a business justification for the project
- Review and update the business justification as appropriate
- Define the management actions that ensure the project´s outcomes are achieved, and the benefits realized
- Define and document the roles and responsibilities for the business case and benefits management
Two products should be produced and maintained:
1) Business case
2) Benefits management approach
What´s minimum requirements for applying the progress theme?
To be following Prince2, a project must, as a minimum:
- Define its approach to controlling progress in the PID
- Be managed by stages
- Set tolerances and be managed by exception against these
- Review the business justification when exceptions are raised
- Learn lessons
What´s purpose of the plans theme?
To facilitate communication and control by defining the means of delivering the products:
- Where
- How
- By whom
- When
- How much
What´s purpose of the risk theme?
- To identify, assess and control uncertainty, and, as a result, improve the ability to the project to succeed
Purpose of a risk budget - A sum of money that should be reserved to fund specific management responses to the project´s threats and opportunities
What´s purpose of the organization theme?
To define and establish the project´s structure of:
- Accountability
- Responsibilities
Used to establish
- An effective project management team structure
- An effective approach for communication
What´s minimum requirements for applying the risk theme?
To be following Prince2, a project must, as a minimum:
- Define its risk management approach
- Maintain some form of risk register
- Ensure that project risks are identified, assessed, managed and reviewed
- Use lessons to inform risk identification and management
Two product should be produced and maintained:
1) Risk register
2) Risk management approach
What´s purpose of the business case theme?
- To establish mechanism to judge whether the project is, and remains (forblir) - desirable, viable, achievable
- Used as a means to support decision-making in the project´s continued investment.
What´s purpose of the progress theme?
- To establish mechanisms to monitor and compare actual achievements against those planned
- To provide a forecast for the project objectives and the project´s continued viability
- To control any unacceptable deviations
What´s minimum requirements for applying the change theme?
To be following Prince2, a project must, as a minimum:
- Define its change control approach
- Define how product baselines are created, maintained and controlled
- Maintain some of issue register
- Ensure that project issues are captured, examined, managed and reviewed
- Use lessons to inform issue identification and management:
Two products should be produced and maintained:
1) Change control approach
2) Issue register
What´s minimum requirements for applying the plan theme?
To be following Prince2, a project must, as a minimum:
- Ensure that plans enable the business case to be realized
- Have at least two management stages
- Produce a project plan for the project as a whole, and a stage plan for each management stage
- Use product-based planning for the project plan, stage plans and exception plans
- Produce specific plans for managing exceptions
- Define the roles and responsibilities for planning
- Use lessons to inform planning
Four products should be produced and maintained:
1) Project product description
2) Product description
3) Product breakdown structure
4) Plan
What´s purpose of the quality theme?
- To define and implement the means by wich the project will verify that products are fit for purpose
- To ensure that the project´s products meet business expectations
- To ensure that the products enable the desired benefits to be realized
What´s minimum requirements for applying the organization theme?
To be following Prince2, a project must, as a minimum:
- Define its org. structure and roles
- Document the rules for delegating change authority responsibilities
- Define its approach (tilnærming) to communicating and engaging with stakeholders
Two products should be produced and maintained:
1) Project Initiation Documentation (PID)
2) Communication management approach
What´s the minimum requirements for applying the quality theme?
To be following Prince2, a project must, as a minimum:
- Define its quality management approach
- Specify explicit quality criteria for products in their product descriptions
- Maintain records to provide (gi) evidence (bevis) that the planned quality activities have been carried out, and summarize the activities in some form of quality register
- Specify the customer´s quality expectations and prioritized acceptance criteria for the project
- Use lessons to inform quality planning, the definition of quality expectations and quality criteria
Two products should be produced and maintained
1) Quality register
2) Quality management approach
What´s purpose of the change theme?
- To identify, assess and control any potential and approved changes to the project baselines
Purpose of a change budget - A sum of money that should be reserved to fund the cost of requests for change, and possibly also their analysis costs
