Starting Up a Project – Exam Fundamentals
The executive and the project manager both work together to make sure that the project scope and objectives are clearly defined, they also design the project management team and go on to appoint people to those roles.
The main products that are created during the starting up a project process is the Project Brief which details the project idea, and the stage plan for the initiation stage outlining the resources needed for the initiation stage.
The executive will create an outline business case which contains a justification for the project. This outline business case forms part of the project brief.
To be confident that you know sufficient information to pass any starting up a project questions in the Practitioner Exam, you need to know and understand the following exam fundamentals:
Starting up a project answers the question “do we have a worthwhile and viable project?”, it also has a number of objectives;
- To ensure that there is a business justification for the project
- To understand the scope of the project
- To investigate the various ways of delivering the project
- To appoint the project management team
- To plan the work for the initiation stage
All of the above provides information so that the project board can make an informed choice that the project is viable and worthwhile, and therefore about whether or not to proceed to the initiation stage.
The starting up a project process covers the pre-project time and is triggered by the provision of the project mandate by corporate or programme management.
Role responsibilities within the starting up a project process
Corporate or programme management are responsible for appointing the executive of the project board, and then in turn appoints the project manager.
The executive creates the outline business case
The project manager creates the project product description
Both the executive and the project manager worked together to design and appoint the rest of the project management team
The project manager assembles the project brief and creates the stage plan for the initiation stage
The Project Brief
The project brief contains a full & validation for the initiation of the project, and to this end contains a number of key sections:
- The project definition
- The outline business case
- The project product description
- The project approach
- The project management team structure and their role descriptions
The key documents to understand are the Project Brief and the Initiation Stage Plan. Don’t forget that there is only one template in PRINCE2 for project, stage, and exception plans.
Finally, it is important to understand how the seven PRINCE2 Themes and PRINCE2 Principles are applied to the starting up a project process.
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