Bobby,
MS Project is a planning tool that helps you define tasks
and to then manage them from the point of view of
resource, actuals, materials, dependencies, etc.
PRINCE is a Project Management methodology that is akin
to many others such as Apex, MADP, etc. One of the major
advantages of Prince is that each and every task must
have a product at the end. If we then look at a
specific task such as IT and take the normal processes of
Requirements, Analysis, Design, etc. PRINCE expands on
this and adds Quality documents, Risk, Impact Analysis,
etc. which are all good. However, they can become OTP
when only small projects are needed. The PMs job is to
make decisions on what to combine and how to do this.
Having done this, it then becomes an easy task to take
each document produced and create all of the work needed
to fulfil the final approval of that document as a task
within MSP.
A quality plan will thus be the time taken by the project
manager, the reviweres of the document and the final
approval. The end product is a document and thus fulfils
the PRINCE tenet of a product. The same can be done for
each task so long as a product is the final result (This
could even be an email confirming things.
Hope this helps.
Stuart
