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Inside PRINCE2: Extreme Weather exam tips

April 19, 2010

This entry is part 4 of 11 in the series Inside PRINCE2

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 [...]

Inside PRINCE2: Working with APMP

March 1, 2010

This entry is part 3 of 11 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 [...]

Inside PRINCE2: Fixed date projects

February 15, 2010

This entry is part 2 of 11 in the series Inside PRINCE2

Planning is an essential part of what project managers do, so you would expect there to be some mention of how to deal with fixed date projects in the PRINCE2 manuals. There isn’t. Fixed date projects only get a passing mention in the Managing Successful Projects book, and you’d have to look really hard to [...]

Inside PRINCE2: Tolerances

January 18, 2010

This entry is part 1 of 11 in the series Inside PRINCE2

Welcome to this year’s feature spot. Each month I will have an insight into the world of PRINCE2 – news, opinion or, like today, a spotlight on a particular aspect of the methodology. Tolerances are a key part of being able to work autonomously as a project manager. Having a tolerance means you can be [...]

Methodologies matter: PRINCE2

October 5, 2009

Last month I was interviewed by Diego Nei, for the Brazilian blog, Papo GP (Talking PM – I think I’ve got that right). We were talking about PRINCE2, what it means to get qualified and how it compares to PMBoK. If you’re up for it, you can read the interview in Portuguese, but Diego has [...]

Ever wondered what happened to the PRINCE2 bear?

July 17, 2009

Do you remember the bear I got at the PRINCE2:2009 launch? (He was on the video.) Well, I got rid of his PRINCE2 shirt, and made him a scarf. This is my first ever attempt at crochet, and while I was very pleased I could actually work out what to do with the hook and [...]

PRINCE2:2009: The Launch

June 16, 2009

Please be patient with the video: it takes a while to load. More notes from the launch event will be here in the days that follow, and I’ll also be covering the differences between the versions.

Previously on PRINCE2…

June 15, 2009

PRINCE2:2009 has it’s official launch tomorrow, so for those of you who aren’t clued up on what it is and why it’s changing, this will help. Watch this space for feedback on the launch!

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