Friday, August 5, 2016

A Brief PRINCE2 Project Brief Template

Are you looking for a short and simple PRINCE2 Project Brief Template? If you bombard stakeholders and team members with long and content rich PRINCE2 documents, both you and the PRINCE2 method could be perceived as overly bureaucratic.

Keeping the documents short, writing in bullet points and using tables are useful tricks to signal efficiency and agility.

PRINCE2 – Hierarchy of Requirements


Product based planning is one of the most powerful techniques in PRINCE2, but where do you draw the line on how detailed a product description should be? Unlike PMBOK® Guide from PMI, PRINCE2 doesn’t explicitly deal with requirement management.

Who documents which level of requirements? What goes in the Project Product Description (PPD in the Project Brief and PID), what should be in the Product Descriptions and what do you do with the rest? Here are some advices: