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PRINCE2

6 Reasons To Use Your pm4success Subscription

September 1, 2010
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This entry is part 9 of 9 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 [...]

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Book review: Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2

August 11, 2010
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This entry is part 8 of 9 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 [...]

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Book review: Directing Successful Projects with PRINCE2

August 9, 2010
Directing Successful Projects with PRINCE2
This entry is part 7 of 9 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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Inside PRINCE2: Closing a project

May 10, 2010
This entry is part 5 of 9 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 [...]

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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.

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Inside PRINCE2: Extreme Weather exam tips

April 19, 2010
This entry is part 4 of 9 in the series Inside PRINCE2
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PM News Round-up

March 15, 2010

Here’s a round-up of the latest happenings in the project management arena.
The Turing Lecture
I attended the 2010 Turing Lecture last month.  Professor Chris Bishop, Chief Research Scientist at Microsoft’s research lab in Cambridge, discussed the field of machine learning.  He talked about how uncertainty can be modeled and quantified using probabilities and how these techniques [...]

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Inside PRINCE2: Working with APMP

March 1, 2010
This entry is part 3 of 9 in the series Inside PRINCE2

PRINCE2 is a well known qualification, but that doesn’t make it incompatible with other qualifications or project management methods.   OGC has recently produced a white paper looking at APMP for PRINCE2 Practitioners.   The white paper looks at the differences between the APMP qualification, which is one offered by APM and based on their Body of [...]

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