The Project Quality Plan for Prince2 Project

Project Quality Plan

The Project Quality Plan is an element of the Project Initiation Document. It defines the level of quality the project must achieve and the action to be taken to ensure this quality level throughout the project.

Contents

The Project Quality Plan contains

• expectation of quality levels by the customer from the Project Brief
• quality tolerances or limits
• Acceptance Criteria
• responsibilities for Quality Assurance
• details on standards
• quality control and audit processes for project management
• quality control and audit processes for specialised work
• change management procedures
• Configuration Management Plan
• tools required to guarantee quality levels

Derivation

The Project Quality Plan is derived from

• Project Brief
• Acceptance Criteria
• Organisational standards
• Project Approach
• Supplier and customer quality management systems
• Configuration Management requirements
• Change Control requirements

Quality criteria

• details how a customer's defined quality levels will be met
• explains how the plan of action will achieve the defined levels
• defines who is responsible for Quality Assurance
• ensures the plan aligns with corporate policy