The PRINCE2 Learn from Experience principle makes good sense. Repeat what works, avoid what doesn’t.  How difficult can that be?  Well hindsight is a wonderful thing – how often does that thought cross your mind?  “If only we’d known…”, “I wish we’d spotted that…”,  “If only we’d done things differently…”  After a project, there should [...]

Best Practice is changing fast.  On April 26th, 2013, UK Government announced that it was to create a joint venture with Capita, the UK-based outsourcing group.  So what is the Capita PRINCE2 plan, how will your qualifications change and what will the PRINCE2 and Best Practice world look like in the future? The JV announcement [...]

Why PRINCE2? It’s a question that quite often gets asked – why PRINCE2?  Well quite simply it’s a great methodology. Don’t believe me!  Well let’s look at some of the reasons why. Why PRINCE2 – The Principles One of the answers to why PRINCE2 is that PRINCE2 is based on 7 key principles.  These principles [...]

Which PRINCE2 course is right for me? When thinking about taking a PRINCE2 course this is quite often a question that gets asked.  People are not sure if they would need to attend just the Foundation course or both the Foundation and Practitioner.  So what is best for you? Let’s see if we can help [...]

Programs – Are they not just big projects This is a question that quite often gets asked. Another question that quite often gets asked is “what is the difference between a program and a project?” Also in my experience organizations are very often not sure if they have a project or a program on their [...]

Every project is different.  You can’t manage each project exactly the same way.  This is why one of the great aspects about PRINCE2 is that it is a generic methodology.  What I mean by this is that it can be applied to any type of project regardless of size, complexity, sector etc.  This is why [...]

Once you have achieved the Foundation qualification, the PRINCE2 Practitioner exam is next. If you study hard during class you have a 99% chance of passing the Foundation exam. The Practitioner however, is a big step up. While the Foundation exam is about what you remember about PRINCE2, the Practitioner is about analysing project situations [...]

PRINCE2 vs PMP is the wrong question to ask.  Certification in the PRINCE2 methodology is an excellent complement to your PMP credential and awards 59 PDUs for a 5 day, instructor led class. PRINCE2 and PMP are the most popular global project management standards: but they are not the same.  PRINCE2 is a project management [...]

Welcome back to the final part of our PRINCE2 jigsaw – What is PRINCE2? In the previous 2 articles we have spoken about the Processes and Themes and how we integrate them together to support the Principles.  We are now going to talk about how we can tailor the method to your own project environment. [...]

Welcome back.  I hope you found part 1 useful.  In part one I looked at answering the question “what is PRINCE2?” and also started to look at piecing the elements of PRINCE2 together. In the last article we spoke about how the Processes tell you what activities you should be carrying out at certain points [...]

Two of the questions that I get asked regularly are “what is PRINCE2?” and “how does it all fit together?”.  The second question is very common on the Monday morning of a course!  The key to PRINCE2 is to take each element and piece it all together.  Just like a jigsaw! So in the next [...]

Attend a FREE PRINCE2 webinar and benefit from an exclusive training deal on Canadian PRINCE2 training.  This deal is only available to session participants. Click a Date to reserve the next PRINCE2 webinar: June 26th What will I learn? Each free PRINCE2 webinar will cover an introduction to the PRINCE2 methodology and the Best Management [...]

PRINCE2 professionals gathered in Toronto on May 3rd for the first run of the Pint and Project; Advantage Learning’s best practice networking group. Experienced PRINCE2 Practitioners, recent graduates and those new to Best Practice spent some quality time learning about PRINCE2 and sharing ideas and experiences. PRINCE2 is growing in the GTA so attendees appreciated [...]

Of course it is.  Projects in their very nature are about change. Organizations use projects to introduce change whether it is a new product line, a new direction the business wants to take, new corporate culture etc.  In PRINCE2 change control is so important that one of the 7 Themes is devoted to it So [...]

PRINCE2 Foundation exam is the first hurdle you will face on your training course.  So what does it look like? The Foundation exam is a one hour multiple choice paper. It is closed book and tests your knowledge and comprehension of PRINCE2. In truth it’s like a memory test. You’ve read the manual and you [...]

PRINCE2 uses a Stage Gate model to control project progress.  This means we break the work to be delivered up into manageable chunks. We call these sections of the project; Management Stages. A Management stage is the work that you as a Project Manager have approval from the board to carry out. In PRINCE2 the [...]

PRINCE2 Business Case – Background A significant amount of attention in the three best management practice methods of MoP, MSP and PRINCE2 is on the need for continued business justification and strategic alignment at portfolio, programme and project level. Business cases play a crucial role in determining that this is the case. In using PRINCE2 [...]

What are the characteristics of a PRINCE2 Project?  What exactly defines a project? Or put another way what makes a project different from business as usual? Business as usual is what PRINCE2 describes as what an organization does on a day to day basis. The normal or the routine operations that they use to run [...]

The PRINCE2 methodology is a generic project management method – designed for any size or subject of project.  PRINCE2 is an acronym for PRojects IN Controlled Environments, version 2. The PRINCE2 methodology can be applied to all types of projects and industry sectors because it focuses on what all projects have in common:  the need to [...]

You’ve passed PRINCE2 but how do you put the qualification on your CV or LinkedIn profile? The correct title is PRINCE2 Registered Practitioner. You can add credibility with your official candidate number, which is on your certificate. Many people shorten the full title to just PRINCE2 or P2. This is simpler if your CV has [...]