Organization

• Introduction
  • Purpose
  • Organization defined
• Levels of organization
• The project management team
  • Project management team structure
  • Project Board
  • Project Assurance
  • Change Authority
  • Size of the Project Board
  • Project Manager
  • Team Manager
  • Project Support
  • Dealing with changes to the project management team
• Working with the project team
  • Balancing the project team and individual
  • Training needs for project teams
  • Part time teams
• Working with the corporate organization
  • Line management functional management
  • Centre of excellence
• Working with stakeholders
  • Types of stakeholder
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • The Communication Management Strategy
• 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

The PRINCE2® approach

Working with stakeholders

Types of stakeholder

There are likely to be individuals or groups who are not part of the project management team, but who may need to interact with the project or who may be affected by the project’s outcome.

Such people may:

• Support or oppose the project
• Gain or lose as a result of project delivery
• See the project as a threat or enhancement to their position
• Become active supporters or blockers of the project and its progress.

It is important to analyse who these stakeholders are and to engage with them appropriately.

Stakeholder analysis identified the following stakeholders for a project to relocate a chemical factory:

• A number of unions
• An environmental pressure group
• An industry regulator
• The programme’s quality assurance function
• A number of corporate management functions (e.g. internal audit, finance, legal)
• The external contractor
• Some members of the public affected by the project.

Note that some of these were external to the project management team but internal to the corporate or programme management organization.

Further details of project management team roles and their associated responsibilities are provided in the folder ‘roles and responsibilities’ as part of the product package. These include role description outlines, which should be tailored to the needs of the specific project and each specific appointment.

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