PRINCE 2 Themes

PRINCE 2 Themes

There are seven PRINCE2 Themes and they are

1) Business case

2) Organization

3) Quality

4) Plans

5) Risk

6) Change

7) Progress

Now let's briefly look at each of the themes.

• Business case: To begin a project, an idea must be born that would be considered to have potential value for the organization. A business case is therefore a justification for a proposed project or undertaking on the basis of its expected commercial benefits.

• Organization: Describes the roles and responsibilities in the temporary PRINCE2 project organization required to manage the project effectively.

• Quality :This explains how to understand and deliver the quality attributes of the products.

• Plans: Plans are the focus for the communication and control throughout the project, it describes the steps required to develop plans and the PRINCE 2 techniques that should be applied.

• Risk: In a project, there are uncertainties because it is susceptible to change. So the theme of risk addresses how project management manages the uncertainties in its plans and in the wider project environment.

• Change: This describes how project management assesses and acts upon issues. Issues may be unanticipated general problems, requests for change or instancee of quality failure.

• Progress: Addresses the ongoing viability of the plans and it explains the decision manking process for approving plans, the monitoring of actual performance and the escalation process if events do not go according to plan.