The Organisation theme of PRINCE2 responds to the principle that a project must have defined roles and responsibilities.
An effective project team must have representation of the three interests of the business, the user and the supplier. This isn't just true for PRINCE2 projects, of course. It's fundamental to any project organisation that the right people ar involved. The method provides a framework for the organisation of a project management team which supports both the need for accountability and authority to be in the right hands and the need to implement a management by exception approach. PRINCE2 provides placeholders for a number of defined roles in the project management team aligned to the project needs of directing, managing and delivering.
It is a principle of PRINCE2 that the method should be tailored to suit the project environment, so the organisation structure should be modified to suit. In fact, the entire set of PRINCE2 roles can be filled with just two people.
The 2009 version of the method introduces more guidance on working with stakeholders, and proposes that each project develops a Communications Management Strategy.
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