Product based planning in Prince2

In my article about the complete Prince2 health check I explained that the main features of PRINCE2 are:

• Business Case: Business justification of the project (which benefits contributes the project for the organization, how does the project contribute to the corporate goal).
• Product Based Planning: A planning based on the products that should delivered.
• Organisation: Defined organizational structure for the project (project manager, business executive, project board, etc.).
• Stages: controlable and checkable project stages.
• Management by Exception: The project board comes together only when strictly necessary.

In this article we’ll look a little bit further on the Product Based Planning aspects of a project. Not only because I have created two home made templates ( Product Breakdown Structure and Product Flow Diagram in Visio format) but also because I think that Product Based Planning helps you to keep your focus right while delivering the required results. (more…)