Agile: It’s not what I thought it was
Agile Journey On my journey to becoming the first PRINCE2 Agile Certified Trainer in North America, I was pleasantly surprised at what agile was and what it wasn’t. Prior to…
Read MoreWhat is the Difference between Projects and Programs?
Best management practice standards include PRINCE2 for Project Management and MSP for Program Management. But when I talk to Project and Business Managers about program management they often ask questions…
Read MoreProject Tolerance
How PRINCE2 delegates decision making. Project Tolerance is used to support the Manage By Exception principle in PRINCE2 and allows for flexibility at various levels within the project. Too many…
Read MoreWhy do projects fail?
One of the first questions I ask on a course on a Monday morning is ‘why do projects fail’. It’s quite often my favorite question of the week as well!…
Read MoreDone: using the Closing a Project process in PRINCE2
The Closing a Project process is the last process in PRINCE2. We all know that Projects are temporary and, just as important as getting a proper start to a project…
Read MoreProgram Leadership – MSP can help
Is this Program Leadership in your world? The boss’s door is closed as usual. There is the sound of raised voices inside. Your heart sinks as you are reminded that…
Read MoreMoP the Boardroom
Don’t forget the senior executives! MoP doesn’t. It emphasizes them as key stakeholders. And, don’t forget the middle managers! Yet they are the very people who generally attend the training…
Read MoreProject Status Meetings
We hate going to the project status meetings, but my how we get upset if we can’t go to one. How many times have you asked someone how a particular…
Read MorePRINCE2 Stage Gate Model
PRINCE2 uses a Stage Gate model to control project progress. This means we break the work to be delivered up into manageable sections. PRINCE2 calls these sections; Management Stages. At the end…
Read MoreWhy use MoP?
Do you have a portfolio? If you usually have several programmes running at the same time, or even just several concurrent projects, you have a change portfolio. How well you…
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