What are the Roles and Responsibilities of a PRINCE2 Certified Professional?

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What are the Roles and Responsibilities of a PRINCE2 Certified Professional?

What is Prince2 Certification?

PRINCE2 stands for PRojects IN Controlled Environments. PRINCE2 is regarded as a common standard that enables both public and private sector projects to be executed with a common understanding of the processes.

 PRINCE2 is one of the leading and popular project management professional certification course that is highly recognized and widely used. PRINCE2  is applicable to any project regardless of the scale, type, geography, organization or culture.

The delivery of products is focused on PRINCE2  more than carrying out activities. There must be a business vase and plan in PRINCE which have to be reviewed periodically.

PRINCE2 is a non-proprietary process-based methodology that is in the public domain and hence not therefore, users are not attached to any single organization for training, consultancy and support.

The structure of PRINCE2 includes:

7 Principles of PRINCE2

• Continued business justification.
• Learn from experience.
• Defined roles and responsibilities.
• Manage by stages.
• Manage by exception.
• Focus on products.
• Tailor to suit the environment

7 Themes of PRINCE2

• Business case.
• Organization.
• Quality.
• Plans.
• Risk.
• Change.
• Progress.

7 Processes of PRINCE2

• Starting up a project.
• Directing a project.
• Initiating a project.
• Controlling a stage.
• Managing product delivery.
• Managing a stage boundary.
• Closing a project.

Roles of PRINCE2 Certified Professional

The jobs are not defined in PRINCE2, instead, the roles are defined detailed with responsibilities and it is not necessary that an individual is assigned to a role. There can be more than a person playing that role.

The important criteria are choosing the right person for the roles that come with its responsibilities and the person with the required skill set, knowledge, experience, expertise, leadership, competency, credibility and authority is the best fit.

There is an exclusive term in PRINCE2that comprises of the project manager, the project board and other roles that are optional. It is called Project Management Team.

For a project to be successful in PRINCE2, there must be three categories of stakeholders with a set of roles and responsibilities.

The project board roles and responsibilities are made up of three primary interests.

The Business interest – the value for the money is provided by the Business Case,

the User interest –project’s outputs are used to realize the benefits, or the user interest used to operate, maintain or support the project outputs.

The Supplier interest – the resources and skills are supplied to produce a project’s products.

The PRINCE2 project organization roles and responsibilities include 4 levels, which are,

1.  Corporate or program management,

They are responsible for the Project Mandate, project-level tolerance definition, and identifying the executive. They are not apart of the project management team and are outside of it.  

2. The Project Board

They are accountable for the success of the project by providing guidance and overall direction.  The Project Board is also accountable for the project’s success or failure of the project, by supplying the required resources, approving the project funding and facilitating effective decision-making. The Project Board must possess the right level of authority, credibility, and ability to delegate. The Project Board Executive has the veto power on any decision making and is primarily responsible for the Business Case.

3. The Project Manager

The day-to-day management of the project is the responsibility of the Project Manager. The project board will lay down the constraints within which the Project Manager must manage within the project.

4. Team members

They are responsible for project delivery on time, within cost and desired quality.

Roles & Responsibilities of PRINCE2 Certified Professional

 The Senior User roles and responsibilities  

Who will use the project’s products will be represented by the Senior User. This also includes how the products will be to achieve an objective.  The Senior User stipulates the benefits and held accountable by corporate or program management.

The Senior Supplier roles and responsibilities 

The design, development, facilitate, procurement and implementation of the project’s products are represented by the Senior Supplier.   The technical integrity of the project is the main responsibility of the Senior Supplier.

The Project Board

It is responsible for Project Assurance which comprises of assurance, business, user and supplier.  Project Assurance can be performed by each project board member who may choose to delegate it. Project Assurance is not dependent on the Project Manager, rather it is independent. Project Assurance offers guidance and counsel to the Project Manager in managing the project. In the case of change requests, the Project Board should decide during the initiation stage if there is time to take up the changes or set up Change Authority who will own up the responsibility on their behalf.  The Project Board should ideally comprise of six to eight members for effective decision making. If the number of persons shoots up, then it slows down the decision making process.

The Project Manager roles and responsibilities

 is responsible for the project management, the delegation of responsibility to the team members and specialists for the creation of products. The project manager will assign work packages to the team which will be handled through a team manager.

The Team Manager roles and responsibilities

The Team Manager will assign the Work Packages to the team members and present the Project Manager with regular updates and Checkpoint Reports. It is the Team Manager who will manage the team members on a day-to-day basis.

Project Support

It is an optional role whose main roles and responsibilities are to provide administrative services to the project. Whenever required, it provides direction and guidance about the use of project management tools. It also provides configuration management.  In the absence of Project Support, then the Project manager will have to manage by themselves.

Demand for PRINCE2 Certified Professionals

The PRINCE2 certification is an important asset to accelerate your career growth in project management.

A 2016 AXELOS survey interviewed project management professionals and other roles, like IT systems and operations and reported their findings as  "regardless of function, candidates do find that PRINCE2 is valuable to their career".

According to Payscale.com, the average annual salaries for certified PRINCE2 professionals in the United States are shown below which was last updated on Nov 11, 2019

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