PRINCE2 roles and responsibilities
Key takeaways
PRINCE2 defines clear accountability while allowing roles to be tailored to suit the project context.OUR VALUES
- The project board is accountable for success, authorises stages, and makes decisions on escalations within agreed tolerances.Our 6 core values are everything we do. They include:
- The executive owns the business case, secures funding, and balances business, user, and supplier interests to protect return on investment.Integrity
- Senior user and senior supplier ensure user needs and technical integrity are met, and commit the right resources at the right time.Diversity
- The project manager runs day-to-day delivery within tolerances, maintains controls and logs, and manages information flow across levels.Fairness
- Project assurance must remain independent from the project manager to provide credible oversight of risk, quality, scope, and communications.Quality

ul>Project support<
li>The project support role by default is performed by the project manager but can also be delegated to other individuals.<
span>Anyone interested in understanding the basic principles of achieving successful organisational change, transition, or transformationThe project support role is often delivered by a >project management office> (PMO).<
li>Responsibilities<
- span>Team members involved in organisational change, transition, or transformation projectsSets up and maintains project files.
- >Establishes document control procedures.
- >Collects data about actuals and forecasts.<
- li>Updates plans.<
- span>Professionals pursuing the Change Management Practitioner certificate – for which the Change Management Foundation certificate is a prerequisite.Administers or assists the quality review process and project board meetings.
- >Assists with writing reports.
- >Provides expertise in the user of specialist tools and techniques (e.g. planning).
- Aspiring or current managers of organisational change, transition, or transformation < span>Those performing key roles in the design, development, and delivery of organisational change programmes
