The correct answer is B — Organization . The organization practice defines the project’s structure of accountability and responsibility and ensures that the business, user, and supplier interests are appropriately represented throughout the project.
The proposed appointment concerns representation of the supplier interest on the project board . The senior supplier is accountable for ensuring that the specialist products can be designed and delivered and that suitable supplier resources, expertise, and technical capability are available. Where the supplier environment changes substantially between stages, the suitability of the project management team should be reconsidered rather than assuming that the original organizational structure must remain unchanged for the entire project.
The replacement subcontractor is expected to undertake the utilities and systems work during stage 3. It is therefore appropriate at the stage boundary to assess whether its account manager should provide senior supplier representation for the forthcoming stage.
Option A, plans, concerns what will be delivered and how, when, and by whom at the planning level, but the specific decision being described concerns project-governance representation. Option C concerns establishing and controlling product quality. Option D concerns monitoring actual and forecast performance against authorized plans and tolerances.
The scenario therefore applies the organization practice within managing a stage boundary to ensure that the governance structure remains appropriate for the next stage.
PRINCE2 7 reference topics: Organization practice; senior supplier; project board; supplier interest; managing a stage boundary; project organization.
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