Focus on Products and Tailor to Suit
Define products and their quality expectations before activities, then tailor the method responsibly to the project context.
How to prepare for PRINCE2 Version 7
Build the project and principle foundations first, integrate people throughout the method, then connect each practice with the seven-process lifecycle and scenario tailoring.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Product focus establishes what must be delivered and its quality criteria before planning the work required.
Exam cue: Define outputs and quality before selecting activities.
Concept 2
Tailoring adapts roles, products, practices, processes and controls for factors such as scale, complexity, delivery approach, capability and commercial environment.
Exam cue: A valid tailoring decision preserves all principles and records why the adaptation is suitable.
Concept 3
The project manager recommends and documents tailoring, while the project board remains accountable for the way the method is applied.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Using tailoring as permission to omit governance without analysis.
Guardrail: Do not choose a process or role by keyword alone; confirm context, authority, product and decision purpose.
Planning activity lists before agreeing products.
Guardrail: Do not choose a process or role by keyword alone; confirm context, authority, product and decision purpose.
Memory anchors
Focus on products
Agree products and quality expectations before planning activities.
Tailoring factors
Context, scale, complexity, delivery approach, capability, risk and commercial relationships.
Tailoring record
Document how the method is adapted and why the result remains fit for purpose.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
What should be defined before planning the activities needed to create a product?
A team starts scheduling before users agree what the final service must do. Which principle should be applied?
What does tailoring PRINCE2 mean?
Answer all questions to submit.
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