Themes

Question 1

What is a theme?

Answer 1

Aspects of project that must be addressed continually

Question 2

What are the 7 themes?

Answer 2

1. Business case
2. Organisation
3. Quality
4. Plans
5. Risk
6. Change
7. Progress

Question 3

What do the integrated set of themes describe?

Answer 3

Baselines e.g. cost, time, quality scope
The project management team monitors and controls work as the project progresses
the organisation theme supports other themes with a structure of roles and responsibilities that has clear paths of of delegation and escalation

Question 4

How should the themes be applied?

Answer 4

tailored according to risk, scale, nature and complexity of project

Question 5

What is the business case?

Answer 5

sets out reason and confirms whether the project is desirable (balance of costs, benefits and risks), viable (can deliver products) and achievable (products results in envisaged outcomes and benefits).

Question 6

What does the business case provide?

Answer 6

Costs, benefits, expected disbenefits, risks and timescales against which viability is justified and continually tested

Question 7

What is the purpose of the organisation theme?

Answer 7

Define the projects structure of accountability and responsibilities

Question 8

Who are the three principle business interests( (stakeholders)?

Answer 8

Business (meets business need), user (uses product), supplier (provides skilled resources)

Question 9

What is the purpose of the quality theme?

Answer 9

is to define and implement the means by which the project will verify that that the products are fit for purpose. I.e. they meet business expectations and enables desired benefits to be realised

Question 10

What is project scope?

Answer 10

What the project will create

Question 11

What are the two main products maintained and produced as part of the quality theme?

Answer 11

Quality Management approach

Quality register

Question 12

What must be done by the quality theme as minimum?

Answer 12

1. Define its quality management approach. Yhis will cover: quality control, project assurance, communication, roles and responsibilities)
2. Quality criteria specified in product descriptions
3. Maintaining records in the form of quality register
4. Specify quality expectation and acceptance criteria as part of product description
5. Lessons learned

Question 13

What must be done by the organisation theme as a minimum?

Answer 13

Define role and organisation- role description fulfilled
Document rules for delegating change authority responsiblities
Define its approach to communications and engaging with stakeholders

Question 14

What 2 products are produced as part of the organisation theme?

Answer 14

PID

Communication management approach