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

The project management team

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Project Manager

The Project Manager is the single focus for day-to-day management of a project.
This person has the authority to run the project on behalf of the Project Board within the constraints laid down by the Project Board.
In a PRINCE2® environment the Project Manager role should not be shared.

The Project Manager will normally come from the customer corporate organization, but there may be projects where the Project Manager comes from the supplier.

For more information on customer/supplier relationships see the section covering ‘Tailoring PRINCE2 to the project environment’.

The Project Manager is responsible for the work of all the PRINCE2 processes except for the Directing a Project process, and appointing the Executive and the Project Manager in the pre-project process Starting up a Project.
The Project Manager also delegates responsibility for the Managing Product Delivery process to the Team Manager(s).

The Project Manager manages the Team Managers and Project Support, and is responsible for liaison with Project Assurance and the Project Board.
In projects with no separate individual allocated to a Team Manager role, the Project Manager will be responsible for managing work directly with the team members involved.
In projects with no separate Project Support role, the support tasks also fall to the Project Manager, although they may be shared with team members.

As the single focus for the day-to-day management of a project, there are many different aspects to the Project Manager role.

The diagram shows some of these different facets.

Note:
PRINCE2 2009 describes the roles and responsibilities of key positions in the Appendices.
[see Appendix C Roles and responsibilities]

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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