PRINCE2

PRojects IN Controlled Environments

Business Case

Project

"A management environment that is created for the purpouse of delivering one or more business products according to a specific Business Case."

Based on a clear definition of its product, Project Plan and budget by the end of initiation.

Product Life Span

ideaStudyTrigger

SpecifyDesignDevelopTestChange Over

Project Life Cycle

Asses ValueUseScrap

Not Included

People Management

Motivation

Delegation

Team Leadership

General Planning Techniques

Gantt Charts

Critical Path Analysis

Quality Techniques

Corporate Quality Management

Quality Assurance Mechanisms

Budgetary Control

Earned Value Analysis

Feasibility Study

Strongly Recomended

Better Option: Handle it as a separate project.

Life Cycle

Problem Definition

Investigation

Development of Options

Submission of Recomendation

Method

Principles

Guiding obligations and good practices

If they are not applied, it's not a Prince2 project

Seven principles

Continued business identification

Justified by Business Case document

Learn from experience

Defined roles and resposnabilities

Manage by stages

Manage by exception

Focus on products

Tailor to suit the project environment

Themes

Aspects of project management

Seven themes

Processes

Process based approach

Management Process

Starting Up a Project (SU)

Pre-project process

Project Mandate

Should be very short

Directing a Project (DP)

Cross process

Project Board

Initiating a Project (IP)

Project Initiation Document

Managing Stage Boundaries (SB)

Decision to continue or not the project

Controlling a Stage (CS)

Handle day-to-day management of the project

Managing Product Delibery (MP)

Closing Project (CP)

Stages

A project may have many stages

Cycle

Authorizing work to be done

Gathering progress information

Watching for changes

Reviewing the situation

Reporting

Taking any necessary corretive action

Introduction

Components

Processes

Techniques

Appendicies

Aspects of Project Management