Starting Up a Project Activities

1^st Activity: Appoint the Executive and Project Manager

This is done by the Corporate or Programme Management. It makes sure that the best possible persons are selected and all sides have agreed on related responsibilities and job descriptions. The Executive and Project Management will take immediate ownership of the project.

2^nd Activity: Capture Previous Lessons

The project must learn from previous projects, other people and other sources. This is a very important point in PRINCE2 and its even one of the seven principles. The Project Manager will add useful lessons / advice to the Lessons Log for use in this project.

3^rd Activity: Appoint a Project Management Team

The Project Manager will create the Roles and Responsibility descriptions, including the estimated effort required for each role. The Executive will appoint the persons.

4^th Activity: Outline the Business Case

The Executive creates an Outline of the Business Case. The Business Case is a very high-level document and will be expanded later into a full Business Case.

For now, it addresses value for the business, company objectives, and funding & risk information.

Also in this activity, the Project Manager creates the Project Product Description to describe the main output of the project.

5^th Activity: Select the Project Approach and assemble Project Brief

The Project Manager examines how best to approach the project, using all available knowledge, and also assembles the Project Brief document. There will be more about this later.

6^th Activity: Planning an Initiation Stage

The Project Manager creates a plan for the Initiation Stage, which will be the first stage of the project. This plan will be detailed enough to be used as a day-to-day plan by the Project Manager. It will include information such as objectives, deliverables, cost and time.

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