PRINCE2 2009 - Plans part 16
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The PRINCE2® approach
Identify activities and dependencies
Activities
Simply identifying products may be insufficient for scheduling and control purposes.
The activities required to create or change each of the planned products need to be identified to give a fuller picture of the plan’s workload.
There are several ways to identify activities, including:
- Making a separate list of the activities, while still using the product flow diagram as the source of the information
- Taking the products from the product breakdown structure and creating a work breakdown structure to define the activities required
The activities should include management and quality-checking activities as well as the activities needed to develop the specialist products.
The activities should include any that are required to interact with external parties - for example, obtaining a product from an outside source or converting external products into something that the plan requires.
Guard against a proliferation of activities beyond the detail appropriate to the level of the plan.
If in doubt, keep things simple.
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