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PRINCE2 roles - Senior user(s)

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This role ( Senior user / Project user) is responsible to provide all project requirements & benefit KPI as role represent aggregated project users expectations. It is highly recommended to include this role to Project steering commitee. Project user(s) is responsible to report about achieved project benefits to Project steering commitee & Project owner/executive as well as to Top management post-project.

In small projects according to PRINCE2 it is good practice to merge Project user(s) with Project owner/executive into single person ( if needed ). Nevertheless in normal or big size projects these roles are recommended to be assigned to diffent persons due to always existing conflict of interest.

Essential responsabilities in the project:

No.Responsabilities
1Provide project product requirements & acceptance/quality criterias
2Provide project products & benefit goals
3Take leadership to represent all user interests & be precise on project requirements & needed benefits
4Take leadership to ensure that created project products are used post-project
5Be accountable to provide project benefit forecasts, updates & actuals that are recorded in Benefit plan
6Resolve user conflicting requirements & set requirement priorities
7Secure competent resources to participate in project product quality review & acceptance
8Activelly participate in Project steering commitee decision making with focus to project requirements & benefits
9Consult on best practices how to manage user requirements
10Take leadership to start using delivered project products during project & post-project across users
11Perform other duties agreed in Project steering commitee

Majority of PRINCE2 roles :

  • Project steering commitee
  • Project owner/executive, internal employee accountable for project benefit who’ takes overall responsability for project business case and project benefit.
  • Project user(s), who represent project users’ responsible for requirements and post-project benefit reporting
  • Project supplier(s), who represent supplier interest’ responsible for project result/output and its quality
  • Top management, who provides mandate to project owner/executive
  • Project manager, coordinate project stage implementation according to authority recieved from project steering committee or/and project owner
  • Project assurance, supports project steering committee (usually as audit function, optional)
  • Change authority, empowered by project steering commitee with limited authority to approve project changes
  • Project support, helps project manager with any day to day items where needed. High focus to quality activities. Optional role, if not existant duties are performed by project manager.
  • Team manager(s), responsible for project product implementation ( deliver project output) with focus to quality
  • Risk Owner, responsible for assigned particular risk management
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