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PRINCE2

Book review: Management of Portfolios

August 11, 2011

This new book is part of the stable of Best Management Practices guides from the OGC. Sitting alongside PRINCE2 and MSP, Management of Portfolios (MoP) looks at—unsurprisingly—managing portfolios of projects and balancing organisational change. So, what are portfolios and portfolio management? The book explains like this: Portfolios represent the totality of an organisation’s investment (or [...]

Throw away your quality plans

March 30, 2011

None of my projects last year had quality plans. Shocked? The project teams delivered high quality results, on budget and mostly to the timescales agreed with the customers. But we didn’t do it with the help of quality plans. A quality plan is a document that sets out what ‘quality’ means to the project and [...]

PMP and PRINCE2 working together

November 22, 2010

This entry is part 11 of 11 in the series Inside PRINCE2

The Inside PRINCE2 series continues with this look at how PRINCE2 and PMP are compatible. In this video Peter Milsom, Executive Program Manager at Aegian Consulting Service Corporation, talks about why he chose to take PRINCE2 when he was already a PMP.

6 Reasons To Use Your pm4success Subscription

September 1, 2010

This entry is part 9 of 11 in the series Inside PRINCE2

The Inside PRINCE2 series continues with this look at pm4success. Exam rooms for APMG exams like PRINCE2 can be daunting. The desks are clear apart from the papers you need. And somewhere on the desk is likely to be a leaflet for pm4success, the APMG’s website for exam candidates. In the stress of the exam, [...]

Book review: Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2

August 11, 2010

Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2 cover

This entry is part 8 of 11 in the series Inside PRINCE2

This new version of the PRINCE2 manual for project managers feels a lot clearer and structured. Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2: 2009 Edition has more diagrams and a greater degree of clarity and explanation about the themes and processes. This makes the book more graphically interesting than the previous versions, and I’m sure this makes [...]

Book review: Directing Successful Projects with PRINCE2

August 9, 2010

This entry is part 7 of 11 in the series Inside PRINCE2

This book is long overdue: it’s a great idea to have a separate manual for those responsible for directing projects and sitting on the Project Board. Directing Successful Projects with PRINCE2 2009 has a clear structure – and it’s also clear what it does not include. There is nothing in here about the leadership skills [...]

PRINCE2 and PMBoK: why both?

May 26, 2010

The OGC, the UK body that produces PRINCE2, is doing a lot at the moment to show how PRINCE2 supports and integrates with other project management standards and methods. Earlier this year, I shared a video with you about how PRINCE2 fits with APM’s body of knowledge. In this video, Andy Murray, the lead [...]

More on PMD Pro

May 24, 2010

Back in 2007, a group of NGO’s met in Baltimore. They realised that their projects were over or under spent and ineffective. “Because we are positive people we saw this as an opportunity,” said John Cropper, Global Programme Co-ordinator for Oxfam’s Raising Her Voice programme. They wanted to do something “by the sector for the [...]

Inside PRINCE2: Closing a project

May 10, 2010

This entry is part 5 of 11 in the series Inside PRINCE2

A project has a start, a middle and an end, so closing a project is an important part of the project management lifecycle. Closing a project successfully means a good, clean transition for the project team. This involves transferring ownership of the products to the operational team, and makes it clear that the project team [...]

The launch of PMD Pro

May 5, 2010

Please excuse my amateur video skills! This one didn’t come out as well as I had hoped. The transcript for the video is below. Elizabeth Harrin: Well, good morning. I’m here at the National Council for Volunteer Organisations in London just around from King’s Cross. I’m looking at Regent’s Canal. It’s a great location. And [...]

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