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7 Best PRINCE2 Books for 2021 (Including PRINCE2 Agile Books)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The PRINCE2® certification exam is tricky to pass because of the style of objective testing and the number of questions you have to answer. But PRINCE2 itself is not a difficult method to learn – and the official manual is actually pretty easy to follow and understand. PRINCE2 Handbook.

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7 Best PRINCE2 Books for 2022 (Including PRINCE2 Agile Books)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The PRINCE2® certification exam is tricky to pass because of the style of objective testing and the number of questions you have to answer. But PRINCE2 itself is not a difficult method to learn – and the official manual is actually pretty easy to follow and understand. PRINCE2 Handbook.

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PRINCE2 Agile Training: Logical Model Online Training Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Product reviewed: PRINCE2® Agile Bundle (includes exam fee, self-paced online training, support and mock exam). Other products offered by this training company: PRINCE2®, PMP Exam Prep, other online PM courses including How to Estimate, Recovery of Troubled Projects, Project Governance. PRINCE2® is a difficult topic to learn online. He’s also been a PRINCE2 examiner, which gives him an insight into how best to get students through the exam.

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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

What is PRINCE2? PRINCE2 is a project management method. PRINCE2 stands for Projects IN a Controlled Environment (Version 2). Who is PRINCE2 for? PRINCE2 works in a huge number of industries and domains. The History of PRINCE2. PRINCE2 Core Principles.

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Project Management Training To Help You Achieve Certification in 2017

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There is a dizzying array of courses out there to help you achieve project management qualifications, both for PMI courses, PRINCE2 courses and more. Logical Model PRINCE2 courses. Simon has two online e-learning video PRINCE2 courses. The PRINCE2 Agile® Exam course includes mock papers and your exam fees so you get a total package. The PRINCE2 course is on pre-release as not yet all of the videos are loaded, but there are 200 up there so it’s not far off being ready.

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Top 10 Things to Know about Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2

Online PM Courses

Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2 is the official guide to the PRINCE2 methodology. The post Top 10 Things to Know about Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2 appeared first on OnlinePMCourses. PRINCE2 PRINCE2 2017 video

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6 Things PRINCE2 Certified Project Managers Should Do Every Day

Prince2

Projects are often very complex endeavours, but PRINCE2 is a project management method proven to deliver them successfully. However, there are certain common activities that a PRINCE2 Certified Project Manager will carry out almost every day. Below we’ve highlighted a few key daily activities, these have been drawn from the PRINCE2 2017 A3 Process Map , which is available for free download. PRINCE2 Project Managers understand this.

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The Benefits Of PRINCE2 For Better Projects And Organizations

Project-Management.pm

And that is how PRINCE2 possesses some qualities that project manager s look for when it comes to tailor-made methods. What Is PRINCE2? Some people assumed that PRINCE2® belongs in a waterfall method—it’s actually not a ‘one size fits all’ process; rather, it’s an outline tailor-made for projects, regardless of type and size. And from these elements, PRINCE2 stands out from the rest of the methods with all it’s the benefits that projects can take advantage of.

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Combining PRINCE2 and Scrum

Prince2

PRINCE2’s 2017 update and the PRINCE2 Agile course make it easier than ever to play PRINCE2 and Scrum on the same team. Tactic 1 – PRINCE2 as a utility player. The trick with any PRINCE2 project is to only use the processes you need. That’s why one method is to use Scrum but add some stabilising processes from PRINCE2, like the Risk Register or Lessons Log. You can drop these PRINCE2 processes in as and when you need them, like a utility player.

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Challenging Change

The Lazy Project Manager

project management alex marson apm change ocm peter taylor PMI pmp prince2 project project manager projects speaking success tailwindThe following is a guest article from my friends at Tailwind Project Solutions: In his new book – How to get Fired at the C-Level: Why mismanaging change is the biggest risk of all – Peter Taylor challenges the foundations of organisational change, asking if the c-level executives out there are truly ready for change to be successful in their own businesses?

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Project Management Methodologies Made Simple: The Complete Methodology Guide for Project Managers

The Digital Project Manager

The ever-evolving project management methodology list of agile, scrum, kanban, lean, xp, waterfall PRINCE2 and PMBOK can be confusing. In this complete guide to project management. The post Project Management Methodologies Made Simple: The Complete Methodology Guide for Project Managers appeared first on The Digital Project Manager. Features General

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PRINCE2 Games

Prince2

These are free to play games where you can test your understanding of the PRINCE2 methodology, and play against your colleagues to see who reigns supreme in your PMO. The post PRINCE2 Games appeared first on PRINCE2 Blog. Roll up roll up! We have recently added a great selection of classic games with a project management twist. Race around to collect jewels in Inca Treasure, or see who can make it to the end of the Snakes and Ladders board.

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Project Management Trends (2018 Edition)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

With the PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition and PRINCE2 2017 both discussing tailoring more thoroughly than ever before, project managers have more flexibility to adapt project approaches to their environment. And my research during winter 2017 shows that getting people involved in projects is still the most challenging part of getting work done. Take a look at the previous annual project management trends articles: Looking into 2017: Project Management Trends.

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How To Start A Project As An Accidental Project Manager

Rebel’s Guide to PM

He offers online training courses on PRINCE2 that can be found by clicking here. Simon recently spoke at 2017 PMO Conference about the evolution of the Project Management office leader to be Chief Change Officer. This article, How To Start A Project As An Accidental Project Manager , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. Help! I’m an accidental or new project manager. How do I get started? Simon Harris.

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Communications Tools: The Project Banner

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You'll also like: Inside PRINCE2: Who does what in project Initiation Initiating a project is where it all starts in PRINCE2. This article, Communications Tools: The Project Banner , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. If you’d asked me a month or so ago if I’d ever have used a roller banner for my project comms I would have said I didn’t have budget for that kind of thing. A project banner for the staff canteen? It sounds like a luxury my boss wouldn’t have approved.

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You Could Be A Project Manager and Not Even Know It

Prince2

Thankfully, their PRINCE2 training reminded them that Risks can be defined as “threats” or “opportunities”. “ Just imagine if our Project Manager hadn’t read their PRINCE2 handbook. If you’re looking to maximise your project management skills and improve your career, click here to get certified with PRINCE2. The post You Could Be A Project Manager and Not Even Know It appeared first on PRINCE2 Blog.

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The 3 Steps to Take When Failure is Not an Option: Getting to Impeccable Business Execution

Rebel’s Guide to PM

How PRINCE2 has helped big business This is a guest post by Peter Richards. This is a guest article by Joel “Thor” Neeb from Afterburner. In school, we were taught that 99% was an A+, and if you were the recipient of such a grade you would probably be accused of “blowing the curve” on the test for everyone else. Well, in today’s business world, 99% business execution is no longer good enough. In fact, it’s an “F”. Take, for instance, Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Project Forecasting 101

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You'll also like: Inside PRINCE2: Who does what in project Initiation Initiating a project is where it all starts in PRINCE2. This article, Project Forecasting 101 , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. Project managers forecast the future all the time: we forward-schedule tasks, plan how much money we’ll need in Quarter 4 and book resources for activities that haven’t happened yet. But how much do you really know about the business of predicting the future?

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What are the Best Project Management Books?

Online PM Courses

Managing successful projects with PRINCE2. There are lots of introductory and explanatory guides to PRINCE2 on the market, but if your serious… This is the authoritative guide published by the current owners of the PRINCE2 methodology set. Darn it but every edition grows massively, and this 6th Edition (September 2017) dwarfs my first edition (1996)! Yes, we’ve had a huge revolution in how we can learn and teach ourselves.

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How to Run Brexit Like a Project

Prince2

You’ve just earned your PRINCE2 Foundation certificate and your first job is to manage Brexit. In January 2017, Theresa May proposed a new free trade agreement which “cannot mean membership of the single market.” But before you can even work as an informed member of a PRINCE2 project team, you’ll need a Foundation certificate. To run and manage a PRINCE2 project, you’ll then need a Practitioner certificate.

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Have You Considered Legal Project Management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

He is PRINCE2 qualified (Practitioner level), a Legal Project Practitioner (LPP) and a founder member of the International Institute for Legal Project Management (IILPM) where he sits on its Global Advisory Council. 2017 Project Management Trends To Watch There are a number of project management trends to watch for in 2017. Legal Project Management (LPM) is a discipline recognised widely in the legal services sector.

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Entrepreneurship & Project Management [Interview]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

PRINCE2 and PMBoK: why both? The OGC, the UK body that produces PRINCE2, is doing a lot at the moment to show how PRINCE2 supports and integrates with other project. This article, Entrepreneurship & Project Management [Interview] , first appeared on Girl's Guide to PM. I used to work for someone who said, “We’ve all got the choice to buy a bucket and a brush.”

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How to Come Up With a Flexible Project Management ?

Project-Management.pm

Such approach is named project-based planning and is considered an essential component of methods or approaches such as PRINCE2®. Projects are not easy to incorporate and maintain because anyone working in the project management field can tell every project is bound to fail and there will be an excessive use of budget and resources. Regardless of the size and complexity of the project, this is mostly the case.

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Deciding the Fate of your Failing Project – Guest Post

Celoxis

Agile best practices Blog Guest Blog PPM Project Management celoxis Prince2 project management project management best practicesThere are multiple factors that can contribute to the early closure of a project, including a lack of proper communication, stakeholder conflict, scope creep or the lack of a well thought-out project plan.

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Socio political complexity and project management

Susanne Madsen

PRINCE2 or a similar framework is rolled out across the organisation, which gives teams a common language. ​I recently heard Stephen Carver speak about complexity. He captured my attention and taught me something about the different types of complexity and how it relates to project management maturity levels. Stephen Carver is a university lecturer at Cranfield School of Management and also spends much of his time consulting directly with corporations.

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Project Management Training to Help You Achieve Certification This Year

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The APM Salary and Market Survey 2017 (pdf) says that 53% of project professionals expect to have to take on new skills and training in the next 5 years. There is a dizzying array of project management courses out there to help you achieve project management qualifications, both for PMI courses, PRINCE2 courses and more. Logical Model PRINCE2 courses. Simon has two online e-learning video PRINCE2 courses.

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5 Project Red Flags

Prince2

A good Practitioner will tailor PRINCE2 to the environment. The whole reason PRINCE2 works is that every type of project tends to unfold similarly. According to the study , “78 percent of projects which adhered to PRINCE2 were a success compared to 38 percent where PRINCE2 was not used.”. But if PRINCE2 sounds too restrictive out of the box, then you’ll like the latest 2017 update. It makes PRINCE2 easier to tailor, especially for Agile.

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PRINCE2 Project Management

ActiveCollab

What is PRINCE2 project management and how does it work? Coming soon. project-management upcoming

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Project Risk Management Model Based on PRINCE2 and Scrum Frameworks,” Martin Tomanek, Jan Juricek, The International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA) , January 2015, Volume 6, Number 1, ISSN: 0975-9018. There was a Tweet two days ago from one of the founders of eXtreme Programming, that said. What happens if you shift focus from "accurate estimation" to "reliably shipping by a date"? .

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Do You Actually Need a Project Management Certification?

ActiveCollab

After it, there are PRINCE2, SAFe, CAPM, ITIL, CSM, and others. PRINCE2 (Projects IN Controlled Environments) is a project management methodology for which you can get a certificate, which issued by the government of UK. While PMP is about project management in general, PRINCE2 is highly prescriptive and has strict procedures every project must follow. You’ve probably heard about all sorts of project management certifications and wonder whether it’s worth having one.

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5 Tips to Help You Pass Your Project Management Qualification Exams [Guest Post]

Brightwork

Regardless of whether you are working on PMP, Agile or PRINCE2, these qualifications have the ability to catapult someone into a very successful career and are highly sought after in their respective industries. The pressure of an upcoming exam is enough to make even the most confident and skilled individual feel stressed or anxious. This is particularly true when talking about a project management qualification exam.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

It was first published in 1996 and is about to publish its sixth edition in the fall of 2017. PRINCE2. What It Is: PRINCE2 stands for Projects IN Controlled Environments, and is a structured certified methodology. What Is a Project Management Methodology?

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10 Things I Love About Managing Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Book review: Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2 This entry is part 7 of 10 in the series Inside PRINCE2This new version of the PRINCE2 manual for project managers feels a lot clearer. Click the graphic to see it full size. 10 Things I love about managing projects. The variety. Today, IT, tomorrow talking to Marketing. Every day is different! Leading a team. Teamwork makes the day more interesting. The tech. Getting to try new apps. Problem solving.

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Why Use Artificial Intelligence To Increase Your Business

Celoxis

A BCG + MIT Sloan Management report from 2017, nearly 85% of the responding companies believed that AI would help them obtain a true advantage over … A.I. Productivity Project Management Guest Post Prince2Artificial Intelligence has slowly but surely entered the realm of business and is rapidly taking roots there. Contrary to the collective fear of AI replacing us and usurping our jobs, AI has proved to be a boon to business.

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Project Management Trends [2020]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

With the PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition and the PRINCE2 manuals both discussing tailoring more thoroughly than ever before, project managers have more flexibility to adapt project approaches to their environment. There are trends in all industries and professions.

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Project Management Trends [2022]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

And my own research during winter 2017 shows that getting people involved in projects is still the most challenging part of getting work done. There’s no denying that project management today looks different to how it did even 5 years ago. Project management trends shape our profession.

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Overseeing 135 book reviews, what stands out?

Henny Portman

Since the first issue of this magazine appeared in 2017, I took the approximately 135 reviews that I posted on my blog in 2017-2019 as a starting point. 2017 book reviews. I provided book reviews for all eight issues of a Dutch Project Management Magazine (Vakblad Projectmanagement).

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Review: A Guide to Assurance of Agile Delivery

Henny Portman

This guide (2017) is a result of the working group of the Association for Project Management’s Assurance Special Interest group (APM’s Assurance SIG). Like the other book I reviewed ( Agile Governance and Audit ), this book too focusses on temporary project organizations using an agile way of delivery (compare PRINCE2 Agile, AgilePM, DAD, PMI Agile where we have agile teams using e.g. Scrum) and not on organizations using e.g. SAFe, LeSS or Nexus.

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How To Become A Project Manager: The Ultimate Guide

Project Bliss

PRINCE2. PMI (2017). Project Management Job Growth and Talent Gap 2017–2027. Have you wondered if project management was a good career path for you, and if so, just how to become a project manager ?

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100+ Project Management Statistics & Facts To Remember in 2019

ProProfs Project Management

80% of federal IT projects were self-described as ‘iterative’ or ‘Agile’ in 2017. PRINCE2 is the least popular project management methodology. Project management is an essential part of every organization. Whether you are overseeing a team or leading major projects and their execution process, it is essential to keep everything in line to ensure project success. In the long run, it is the project management techniques adopted by managers that either make or break the organization.

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