Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2
About this book
The official PRINCE2 manual and the basis of the Foundation and Practitioner examinations. The method rests on seven principles that must all be present for work to count as PRINCE2, a set of practices covering the management concerns from the business case through to progress, and seven processes running from starting up a project to closing it. The seventh edition puts people at the centre of the method, adds sustainability to the performance targets a project is managed against, and gives more room to working in an agile way. Tailoring is treated as a requirement rather than an option, so the manual keeps asking how much process a given project actually needs. Read it for the vocabulary used across UK public sector and much European project governance.
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- Tailoring the approachDeciding which practices, artefacts and controls a particular project will use, at what formality, and being able to say why each one earns its place.
- Project closureFinal acceptance, contract closure, releasing resources and archiving records, why a cancelled project is closed the same way, and the difference between a deliverable being accepted and a benefit being realised.
- Integrated change controlWhy a change to a baseline is a decision, the path a change request takes from submission to a reissued baseline, who may approve one and how the same problem appears on adaptive work.
- Project governanceThe framework of decision rights on a project, meaning who decides what, at which thresholds and on what evidence, and why writing it down makes delivery faster.
- Performance domains and processesSeven performance domains name the areas a project has to perform in, five focus areas name the points in its life where work happens, and forty processes sit at the intersection.
- Issues and the RAID logRisks, assumptions, issues and dependencies in one place, why the boundary between a risk and an issue is the one that matters, and what keeps a log usable.