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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

PRINCE2® is a project management method. It’s structured, and experience-based, created from the lived experience of thousands of project managers and successful projects. It’s a customizable way of managing and controlling the work. I took my first Practitioner course in 2004. Manage by exception I love this principle.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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The Glass Cliff in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Women working in project management have come a long way in shattering glass ceilings and revolutionizing the workforce. Once high-performing women in project management are introduced to the glass ceiling, they are likely to meet the glass cliff. It’s when stakes are high and the risks are great. What Is the Glass Cliff?

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In-Depth: How To Create Better Work Agreements For Your Team

Scrum.org

This is the ability of team members to act in concert without explicit coordination (MacMillan, Entin & Serfaty, 2004). This effect has been observed with flight crews (Orasuna, 1990), nuclear plant control crews (Waller, Gupta & Giambatista, 2004), and work teams (Urban et. Academy of Management journal , 52 (3), 581–598.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ?

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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I have updated my responses in order to better reflect the PRINCE2 and A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge — PMBOK® Guide , as at October 2021 as the PMBOK® Guide has been updated since this interview first took place, and PRINCE2 US was launched in 2020. She first took her PRINCE2 Practitioner exam in 2004.

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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

PRINCE2 is a project management method. It’s structured, and experience-based, created from the lived experience of thousands of project managers and successful projects. It’s a customizable way of managing and controlling the work. I took my first Practitioner course in 2004. Manage by stages. What is PRINCE2?

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