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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I took my first Practitioner course in 2004. Because PRINCE2® is a broad-brush approach, it doesn’t cover technical processes or specific techniques, but it will fit alongside them. I was asked to be one of the reviewers of the PRINCE2 7 manual, so I am very familiar with the content and changes since the last edition.

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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

She first took her PRINCE2 Practitioner exam in 2004. In PRINCE2 you start with pre-project, then the initiation stage, then the subsequent delivery stages (you might want several if the project is long) then the final delivery stage which includes closing a project. Hello Elizabeth, thanks for coming, how are you? Well, thank you!

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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I took my first Practitioner course in 2004. Because PRINCE2 is a broad-brush approach, it doesn’t cover technical processes or specific techniques, but it will fit alongside them. You review progress, monitor that against the baseline you set and correct any deviations. Closing a project. Who is PRINCE2 for?

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What is Taylorism, and why Waterfall is just the tip of the iceberg!

Scrum.org

Reviewer(s): Russell Miller PST. Before the industrial revolution, goods were made in small cottage industries, and people worked close to their home. However the technology of the time was unable to automate at that scale, so the only available “machines” were people. Subscribe to A Wee Dram! Topic(s): People & Process.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993.

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Misinterpretations of the Cone of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure. Closed Loop Stochastic Adaptive control in the presence of Evolving Uncertainty. Management of this reduction work and measurement of the progress is a Close Loop Control System paradigm. The Cone of Uncertainty as a Technical Performance Measure.