The Project Product Description (PPD) is created during the 'Starting up a Project' process. Specifically, it is an output of the activity 'Select the project approach and assemble the Project Brief'. The PPD defines the scope, quality criteria, and acceptance criteria for the project's main deliverable. It is a fundamental component of the Project Brief, which consolidates the information necessary for the Project Board to decide whether to authorize the initiation stage.

A. Design and appoint the Project Management Team: This activity focuses on defining the structure, roles, and responsibilities of the project management team, not on defining the project's final product.

B. Prepare the outline business case: This activity develops the initial justification for the project. While it requires an understanding of the project's outcome, its primary output is the Outline Business Case, not the formal Project Product Description.

D. Plan the initiation stage: This activity creates the Stage Plan for the initiation stage. It details the activities, resources, and controls required for the initiation stage itself, not the definition of the project's final deliverable.

1. AXELOS. (2017). Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2 (6th ed.). TSO (The Stationery Office).

Section 10.4.5

'Select the project approach and assemble the Project Brief': This section explicitly states that one of the PRINCE2 recommendations for this activity is to "Create the Project Product Description".

Figure 10.2

'Starting up a Project process model': This diagram visually shows that the Project Product Description is an output of the 'Select the project approach and assemble the Project Brief' activity

feeding into the assembled Project Brief.

Appendix A

Section A.21

'Project Product Description': This section notes that the Project Product Description is "created in the Starting up a Project process". It also clarifies its purpose is to define what the project must deliver in order to gain acceptance.