PRINCE2F Practice Question: Overview of PRINCE2 and the project environment
A Project Board is considering whether to authorize the initiation of a project. Which document should they review?
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Project Brief
The Project Brief contains the outline Business Case, project approach, and other information needed for the Project Board to decide whether to proceed to initiation.
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Project Brief
Why this is correct
The Project Brief is the output of Starting Up a Project and contains the outline Business Case, project definition and approach. The Project Board reviews it to decide whether to authorise initiation, which then produces the Project Initiation Documentation.
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Business Case
Why it's wrong here
The Business Case justifies the project and is reviewed at the end of the Starting up a Project process, but it is not the document the Board reviews to authorise initiation. This is tempting because the Business Case underpins the decision, yet authorisation of initiation requires the Project Initiation Documentation.
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Stage Plan
Why it's wrong here
A Stage Plan covers a single management stage and is produced during initiation, so it cannot exist when the Board authorises initiation. This is tempting because Stage Plans are Board-approved documents, but they are created later; the correct document is the Project Initiation Documentation.
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Project Initiation Documentation
Why it's wrong here
The Project Initiation Documentation is reviewed at the end of the Initiating a Project process to authorise the project itself, not its initiation. This is tempting because it is the Board's key approval document, but authorising initiation requires the Project Brief, assembled during Starting up a Project.
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