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PRINCE2 and PMBOK: How They Compare

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We were talking about PRINCE2®, what it means to get qualified and how it compares to the PMBOK Guide. She first took her PRINCE2 Practitioner exam in 2004. Elizabeth, what’s the story behind the PRINCE2 methodology? In brief, how does PRINCE2 work?

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What PRINCE2® certification should you get?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Are you looking at what PRINCE2 ® (PRojects IN a Controlled Environment) certificate you should get? I’ve taken the PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner exams in the past so let me share my experiences and research. There are 4 PRINCE2 certificates: PRINCE2 Foundation (6 th Edition).

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What is PRINCE2 Agile? …and Does it Make Sense? | Video

Online PM Courses

PRINCE2 Agile is a Project Management methodology designed to create a high-governance framework for traditional predictive projects. The post What is PRINCE2 Agile? Agile Project Management PRINCE2 Project Management: What is. PRINCE2 Agile video

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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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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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Why Use PRINCE2 Project Management for Managing Multiple Scrum Teams?

International Institute for Learning

Scrum has its origins in software development, but about ten years ago, other departments in organizations started looking at becoming more agile and analyzing whether the Scrum approach could also be used in their departments— and in projects. In PRINCE2 , the project has an owner.

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PRINCE2 Certification: Everything You Need to Know

Online PM Courses

Today, over a million project managers use PRINCE2 in countries all over the world in public and private sector projects. It’s attention to rigor and good governance make it a popular standard for many organizations. The post PRINCE2 Certification: Everything You Need to Know appeared first on OnlinePMCourses. PRINCE2 Project Management Career Project Management Training PRINCE2 Agile

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Review Agile Governance and Audit

Henny Portman

Christopher Wright wrote the book Agile Governance and Audit – An overview for auditors and agile teams. Auditing of an agile way of working looks like an unexplored corner. Agile Governance and Audit gives a short introduction to agile, compares agile with waterfall and looks at audit and agile cultures. The author follows a project life cycle from idea towards a usable product including governance and control.

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Prince2 Certification Guide for Misguided #ProjectManagers

nTask

So, here I am, once again, writing the dreaded guide about Prince2 methodology and certification. Believe me, getting the Prince2 Foundation level certificate is not as hard as having to write the entire post again…. Prince2 Certification from Experts’ Point of View: Let’s start with Colin Bentley this time. He has a book called: ‘Prince2 A Practical Handbook’. Bentley’s argument has a lot of weight in the context of Prince2 methodologies.

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Review Agile Portfolio Management

Henny Portman

There are not that many books on agile portfolio management, so I am curious what the book Agile Portfolio Management – A guide to the methodology and its successful implementation “knowledge that sets you apart” written by Klaus Nielsen, offers.

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Agile Certification: Your Guide to the Large Array of Agile Qualifications

Online PM Courses

You want to embrace Agile as part (or maybe all) of your Project Management practice. Which Agile Certification program should you follow? Classifying the Agile Certification Providers. To make this guide easier to read, I have divided the providers of Agile qualifications into three categories: Agile Certification Your Guide to the Bewildering Array of Agile Qualifications. I have also included the Axelos PRINCE2 Agile qualifications here.

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Transforming to an Agile Enterprise

International Institute for Learning

By Sandeep Shouche Most executives will hear the Agile buzzword and ask their teams to “do this agile thing.”. For many executives, Agile only means: Do it even faster than before. True “Agility” is a much deeper change and most enterprises will underestimate the amount of change they will experience when they adopt Agile. While there are many organizations that claim to be an Agile enterprise, very few actually behave like one.

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Why the Stage Gate Process will Make You a Better Project Manager

Online PM Courses

Gateway (PRINCE2). It is an important part of project governance that looks both backwards and forwards. We’ll examine the case for applying the stage gate principle to Agile projects towards the end of this article. Let’s set aside the very important governance imperative. But what if governance were unimportant to you… or your organization? ’ PRINCE2 and the UK Government refer to Gate 0 – Strategic Assessment.

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Too many rules makes agility impossible

Henny Portman

One of the principles of the Agile Manifesto is “ Simplicity—the art of maximizing the amount of work not done—is essential ”. If you look at some agile frameworks or ways of working, you can ask yourself if the rule makers force you to be rule taker or rule breaker. Agile manifesto.

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5 Project Red Flags

Prince2

A good Practitioner will tailor PRINCE2 to the environment. For example, you could run a project on a government contract and they might decide one day that they don’t have the budget to continue and the project is cancelled. 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.”.

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Review: A Guide to Assurance of Agile Delivery

Henny Portman

The guide addresses assurance in relation to the areas that are considered the fundamental aspects (and key differences form traditional waterfall approach) of agile project management and assurance. The four areas described, are (each in a separate chapter): Approaching reviews in an agile way provides guidance on how to plan and conduct reviews. A Terms of Reference (ToR) focusing on the specifics of an agile way of working, the planning of the review and the the output.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

Agile Methodology. What It Is: In a nutshell, Agile project management is an evolving and collaborative way to self-organize across teams. How do you know if agile is for you? Related: Agile vs Waterfall and the Rise of Hybrid Projects. PRINCE2.

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Gate Reviews: What Project Managers Need To Know

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project governance is an important part of project management processes – even if it’s not the most exciting part of getting work done. Governance is a key part of that, and gate reviews are part of navigating through the project.

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Artificial Intelligence And Transformation Team Implications

International Institute for Learning

Data cleansing and data governance becomes critical when AI mechanisms are being used in portfolio decision and monitoring processes. Many organisations will use more agile and flexible forms of delivery to not only deliver AI programs but use AI in transformation delivery.

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Artificial Intelligence And Transformation Team Implications

International Institute for Learning

Data cleansing and data governance becomes critical when AI mechanisms are being used in portfolio decision and monitoring processes. Many organisations will use more agile and flexible forms of delivery to not only deliver AI programs but use AI in transformation delivery.

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Is Hybrid Really a Popular Project Approach?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Instead of rigidly adhering to a waterfall (predictive) or Agile (iterative) method, project teams pick and choose elements from the range of approaches to choose a way of working that suits them. These are all ideas that align with agile ways of working.

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Top 5 Project Management Certifications To Become A Great Project Manager!

The Lazy Project Manager

PRINCE2. PRINCE2. The PRINCE2 certification course is another important project management credential project managers can take. was first introduced for the government offices of UK. PRINCE2 is accredited by AXELOS and focuses on managing, directing and delivering projects throughout all phases from pre-project to initiation, delivery, and the final delivery. About the PRINCE2 Certification exam structure. PRINCE2 certification prerequisites.

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The Definitive Guide to Project Management Methodologies

Workamajig

Agile. Agile, another software development-focused PM methodology, emerged as a response to the failure of Waterfall method for managing complex projects. Although Agile PM ideas had been in use in the software industry for quite a while, it formally came into being in 2001 when several IT representatives released the " Agile Manifesto ". In approach and ideology, Agile is the opposite of the Waterfall method. While scrum is agile, agile isn’t scrum.".

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How Project Management Will Benefit from Using Artificial Intelligence

International Institute for Learning

For many companies, expanding the number of projects into strategic programs and portfolios, then adopting modern delivery methodologies such as agile or hybrid delivery lifecycles, brought with it new challenges such as those shown in Exhibit 1.

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Overview of my year 2019 book reviews

Henny Portman

Agility. Agile zoals het bedoeld is. A guide to assurance of agile delivery. Agile governance and audit. Agile nxt new insights for agile performance management. An executives guide to disciplined agile. Agile leiderschaap.

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

This is the motivation for short work intervals found in agile development. . Using the Agile Methodology to Mitigate the Risks of Highly Adaptive Projects,” Dana Roberson and Mary Anne Herndon, 10 th Annual CMMI Technology Conference And User Group , November 5 – 8, 2012, Denver, CO. Hybrid–Agile Software Development Anti–Patterns, Risks, and Recommendations,” Paul E. Agile Development and Software Architecture: Understanding Scale and Risk,” Robert L.

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8 Project Management Methodologies Made Simple

Proofhub

Combine your agile methodology with an effective PM tool. The list goes something like this: Agile? —?Continuous Robust development to ensure quality PRINCE2 ?—?Controlled Agile Agile is one of the hottest buzzwords today. These days a number of firms are using the agile methodology to help them with software development. Scrumban Scrumban is an Agile development methodology that is a hybrid of Scrum and Kanban.

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Project Management Methodologies 101: The What, Why, How, & Types Explained

ProProfs Project Management

Agile Methodology. The Agile project management methodology emerged in 2001, and it is still fast catching up and proving to be a vital tool in the arsenal of most modern project managers. How are Waterfall and Agile Framework Different? Pros and Cons of Agile Framework: Pros.

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Scrum Master vs Project Manager — An overview of the differences.

Scrum.org

Isn’t a Scrum Master some kind of an Agile Project Manager? Before we dive into an overview of the differences between a Scrum Master and a Project Project Manager, let’s start with the conclusion, which is: The Scrum Master is not an Agile Project Manager. What is a Scrum Master?

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Brief comparison between MSP 5th edition and MSP 2011 edition

Henny Portman

Looks like they embraced my idea to add a quick reference card as I did when writing the official Directing Successful Projects with PRINCE2 guide. Some are more or less combined and two principles collaborate across boundaries (to facilitate effective cross-organizational governance where it does not already exist) and deal with ambiguity (to embrace the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous nature of programmes and focuses attention on the need to make ‘eyes-open’ choices).

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Choosing a Project Management Methodology

Brightwork

In this article, I will briefly outline seven popular approaches – PRINCE2, Critical Path Management, Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Hybrid, and Kanban – before concluding with some tips to determine which methodology to use. Project Management Methodologies PRINCE2 PRINCE2 (an acronym for PRojects IN Controlled Environments) is a process-driven approach with a focus on business justification and a defined organization structure for teams.

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Becoming a Project Manager – A Complete Guide for 2018

Paymo App

Project management methodologies – Agile, Waterfall, PRINCE2, PRiSM, Six Sigma, Critical Path, and many more. For Europe, you might want to look for a PRINCE2 certification. The PRINCE2 Certification. The PRINCE2 (PRojects IN Controlled Environments2) project management methodology is one of the most popular methods that you can use in PM. This certification has three main levels: PRINCE2 Foundation. PRINCE2 Practitioner. Agile.

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How to recruit an outstanding project manager (Part I)

Susanne Madsen

Although it isn’t possible to provide one single definition of what a good project manager looks like, certain traits, skills and attributes seem to be advantageous for a person who is to lead a project. Essentially, the job of a project manager is to take on a customer’s big picture vision and to turn that vision into reality within certain time, budget and quality constraints.

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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. 93% of communication service providers are using agile project management methodologies. IT projects need to be less complex, not to have more focus on governance. Only 11% of companies use the Agile project management methodology. 71% of respondents use the Agile project management methodology more frequently than in previous years.

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AgilePM documentation based on building blocks

Henny Portman

If you look at the AgilePM (The DSDM Agile Project Framework) documentation set-up you could ask yourself if it’s not too much for an agile way of working? For assurance purpose a Governance check building block is added. At the time of writing this article, I have given presentations to government authorities, an energy company, a retailer, consultancy companies and project management departments in order to bring the philosophy behind the standard into the limelight.

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Project Cost Management – The Essential Things to Know and Do

Online PM Courses

The governance considerations for project cost management. The PMBoK calls this ‘reserves’ Governance of Project Expenditure. The PMI’s PMBOK is weak on governance throughout. So it is little surprise that it has nothing (that I can find) to say about the governance of Project Cost Management. But, as always, the UK Government’s PRINCE2 methodology has governance as a key strength, and points us in the right direction.

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4 Project Management Trends of 2020: What to Prepare for?

Epicflow Blog

Moreover, we’re subsidized by the Dutch government to research artificial intelligence in project management. The most popular PM methodologies are as follows: Agile (Scrum, Kanban). Prince2. When it comes to more complex issues, Agile methodology comes to the foreground.

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The PMI Talent Triangle: A Guide [for members and non-members]

Online PM Courses

Tailoring traditional (predictive) and agile tools and methods. Here, they list their examples of technical project management expertise: Agile practices. Governance (project, program, portfolio). Agile Project Management training corses. Certifications in PRINCE2 ( Foundation , Practitioner , and Agile Practitioner ). A range of Agile and Scrum qualifications from scrum.org, EXIN, and Agile Business Consortium.

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

Agile: A project management methodology that focuses on delivering work in an iterative fashion. The agile approach is usually used in software projects where the scope is not always known and adaptability is prioritized. Project management terminology can be complicated.

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Do You Actually Need a Project Management Certification?

ActiveCollab

Degrees are awarded by universities and governments, take much longer to complete, and require students to take general education courses in addition to profession-specific ones. 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.