PRINCE2 Cheat Sheet
PRINCE2 Cheat Sheet
PRINCE2 Cheat Sheet
Waterfall agile
Approach Approach
Where each of the delivery steps Often, but not exclusively, used
to create the products takes for software development where
place in sequence and the requirements gathering, design,
product is made available during coding and testing all take place
or at the end of the project. iteratively through the project.
PRINCE2 principles
To be following PRINCE2, these 7 principles must
be adopted when managing a project.
PRINCE2 Themes
The themes describe aspects of project management that
must be addressed continually as the project progresses
through its lifecycle.
Change What is the impact?
Quality What?
Where are we now?
Progress Where are we going?
Should we carry on?
Organisation Who?
Themes
Risk What if?
How?
Plans How much?
When?
Business Why?
Case
Must Should
Have have
The acceptance criteria or quality The acceptance or quality criteria
criteria define what is essential define what is important, but not
and critical to the business critical, to the business
justification of the project. justification of the project.
prince2 processes
A process is a structured set of activities designed
to accomplish a specific objective.
Baselines
Benefits Management Approach Project Brief
Business Case Project Initiation
Documentation
Change Control Approach
Project Product Description
Communication Management
Approach Quality Management Approach
Plan Risk Management Approach
Product Description Work Package
records
Configuration Item Record Lessons Log
Daily Log Quality Register
Issue Register Risk Register
reports
Checkpoint Report Highlight Report
End Project Report Issue Report
End Stage Report Lessons Report
Exception Report Product Status Account
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Definitions
What does it mean?
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portfolio
The totality of an organization’s investment (or
segment thereof) in the changes required to
achieve its strategic objectives.
Management stage
The section of a project that the project manager is managing on
behalf of the project board at any one time, at the end of which the
project board will wish to review progress to date, the state of the
project plan, the business case and risks and the next stage plan, in
order to decide whether to continue with the project.
Stakeholder
Any individual, group or organization that can affect, be affected by,
or perceive itself to be affected by, an initiative (i.e. programme,
project, activity or risk).
Risk
An uncertain event or set of events that, should it occur, will have an
effect on the achievement of objectives. A risk is measured by a
combination of the probability of a perceived threat or opportunity
occurring, and the magnitude of its impact on objectives.
Baseline
Reference levels against which an entity is monitored and controlled.