Plans

• Purpose
• Defined
  • What is a plan?
  • What is planning?
  • Levels of plan
  • The Project Plan
  • Stage Plans
  • Team Plans
  • Exception Plans
• The PRINCE2 approach
  • Philosophy
  • Prerequisites for planning -
    design the plan
  • Define and analyse the products
• Prerequisites for planning
  • Write the Project Product Description
  • Create the product breakdown structure
  • Write the Product Descriptions
  • Create the product flow diagram
• Identify activities and dependencies
  • Activities
  • Dependencies
• Prepare estimates
• Prepare the schedule
  • Overview
  • Define activity sequence
  • Assess resource availability
  • Assign resources
  • Level resource usage
  • Agree control points
  • Define milestones
  • Calculate total resource requirements and costs
• Analyse the risks
• Document the plan
• Responsibilities

Key sections

• Introduction
• Business case
• Organization
• Quality
• Plans
• Risk
• Change
• Progress
• Introduction to processes
• Starting up a projectDirecting a project
• Initiating a project
• Controlling a stage
• Managing Product Delivery
• Managing a Stage Boundary
• Closing a Project
• Tailoring PRINCE2 to the project environment
• Directing Projects with PRINCE2

Plans defined

Team Plans

A Team Plan is produced by a Team Manager to facilitate the execution of one or more Work Packages.
Team Plans are optional; their need and number will be determined by the size and complexity of the project and the number of resources involved.

PRINCE2® does not prescribe the format or composition of a Team Plan.
There may be more than one team on a project and each team may come from separate organizations following different project management standards (not necessarily PRINCE2).
In some customer/supplier contexts it could even be inappropriate for the Project Manager to see the details of a supplier’s Team Plan; instead, summary information would be provided sufficient for the Project Manager to exercise control.
Therefore the formality of the Team Plan could vary from simply appending a schedule to the Work Package to a fully formed plan in similar style to a Stage Plan.

The Team Manager(s) may create their Team Plans in parallel with the Project Manager creating the Stage Plan for the management stage.

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