EPM-for-PRINCE2

The PRINCE2 project management method has become the de-facto standard for many large Australian organisations. The clearly-defined approach is appealing to many organisations as it supports the controlled access to resources, stage-by-stage project review and approval, and clarity of roles and responsibilities.

Challenges

  • Maintenance of document templates and ensuring that project managers have simplified access to the latest versions of all templates
  • Ensuring all project documentation is created and stored in a consistent manner and location
  • Providing project managers with process support information relating to which project management deliverables are required and when
  • Simplifying the approval process for stage and exception plan authorisations
  • Making PRINCE2 scalable to cater for smaller project sizes within an organisation
  • Ensuring a consistent approach to risk and issue - capture, reporting and escalation
  • Managing Stage Boundary approvals
  • Managing the product delivery process through the acceptance, execution and delivery of work package activities
  • The electronic capture of document approvals including document version control and revision history
  • The delivery of exception reports to management supporting the Directing of a Project
  • The automated creation of project highlight and status reports

Solution

EPM Partners respond to these challenges with a ready-made Microsoft Project Server flavour for PRINCE2 which is preconfigured solution with:

  • document template storage and content management supporting immediate application of document template changes to all new workspace documents
  • automated creation of project workspaces where documents, risks, issues, and other project data is recorded and centrally maintained
  • configured project management pages to step the project manager through the management method and prompt/require the submission of project data/documents at each stage
  • stage and exception plan document workflow approvals
  • predefined Enterprise Project Types supporting a smaller number of PRINCE2 deliverables for those projects that produce a subset of management deliverables
  • configured workflows to manage Stage Boundary approvals
  • automated project highlight and status reports that include reference to all aspects of the project including Risks and Issues.
  • traffic light exception reports by project, program and portfolio

EPM Partners' EPM-for-PRINCE2 Solution Accelerator combines knowledge of the PRINCE2 project management method with Project Server configurations. EPM-for-PRINCE2 Solution Accelerator is available for internal deployment to clients' own infrastructure, or on EPM Partners' EPM-on-Demand service.