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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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MPlaza PRINCE2® Foundation Exam Simulator Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Are you considering buying the Mplaza PRINCE2® Foundation exam simulator? In this PRINCE2 Foundation Mplaza exam simulator review , I’ll share: Whether the tool is worth the investment (spoiler: yes, even if you are taking Practitioner as well). PRINCE2® Foundation Exam Simulator. £34.

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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. When I did my refresher course for re-certification I studied mainly online and then did a day-long crash course prior to the exam.

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Review Official PRINCE2 Foundation App

Henny Portman

A companion learning tool to pass the PRINCE2 Foundation exam. It’s based on a simple 3-step approach: study, practise and mock exams. The App contains a case study to bring PRINCE2 to life and offers links to continue your PRINCE2 journey. On the main menu you have to choose between study or practice. The case study contains 5 topics: Introduction to PRINCE2: introducing the company, it’s vision, the project and the key employees.

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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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?BOOK REVIEW: ALEXEI KUVSHINNIKOV’S “THE DEEP-SPACEODDITY PROJECT” (PRINCE2® FICTION)

Brad Egeland

​BOOK REVIEW: ALEXEI KUVSHINNIKOV’S “THE DEEP-SPACE ODDITY PROJECT” (PRINCE2® FICTION) It’s easy to get excited and enthusiastic about something so new and unique. The author called it “PRINCE2 Fiction” and at least I am not aware of anything remotely similar existing on the market. Still, it revolves in a similar fashion around the work of a group of mprofessionals who in this case have different roles in a PMO.

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Top 10 Books on Change Management (2023 edition)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I think this book is more for transformative, disruptive, organizational change instead of project-led ‘small’ change, but the theories, case studies, and techniques can definitely be applied to a project environment.

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What are the Best Project Management Books?

Online PM Courses

The books style is to create mini case studies and then discuss options and solutions. In this part, let’s look at some of the specific topics you’ll want to study, as you develop your project management career. 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.

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Review Agile Portfolio Management

Henny Portman

The book is divided into nine chapters, starting with project portfolio management, and ending with case studies on agile portfolio management. The last chapter shows nine (brief) case studies on some degree of agile portfolio management.

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Best Books for Women in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This book covers a lot of case study materials and look at examples of women who have made career decisions to advance their careers. In this video I share my four favorite books for women in leadership and women in project management positions.

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The project customer role

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It could also include those who will be the customer of the end product, for example, the Senior User in PRINCE2® terminology. This is an edited extract from my book Customer-Centric Project Management , co-authored with Phil Peplow (Routledge, 2012).

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15 Tested & Practical Tips from Women in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Helen Hitchmough says: More than anything else, the [PRINCE2] training helped me because I was able to talk about projects and ideas with the other people there. Studying with other people brings project management more to life, by using case studies and talking to the other delegates.

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Become a PM Pro With These Project Management Courses

Workamajig

There are in-depth programs that cover months of study material and require 20+ hours/week to complete. The course covers PM methodologies, tools, and lifecycle followed by a detailed case study. Spread over 23 units, it explores all the core concepts you need to master before you can embark on a study of project management. It also includes dozens of hours of video content, case studies, and tests to help you ace the exam.

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Review Agile Governance and Audit

Henny Portman

A case study is included. A case study is included. This is where we now see PRINCE2 Agile, AgilePM, DAD or PMI Agile. 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. There is not that much written about this topic.

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The Best 53 Project Management Blogs You Should Be Reading

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How to Write a Business Case. What to expect: Planio writers handle topics like project management, productivity, remote work, and entrepreneurship along with case studies and product updates. How To Write A Business Case ? 4 Steps To A Perfect Business Case Template. What to expect: The Kanbanize blog is packed with articles, expert interviews, use cases, podcasts, and videos on lean management, productivity, and Kanban in particular. PRINCE2 Blog.

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15 Tested & Practical Tips from Women in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Helen Hitchmough says: More than anything else, the [PRINCE2] training helped me because I was able to talk about projects and ideas with the other people there. Studying with other people brings project management more to life, by using case studies and talking to the other delegates. This article, 15 Tested & Practical Tips from Women in Project Management , first appeared on Girl's Guide to Project Management.

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What is a Digital Project Manager (and How to Become One)

Workamajig

Since Accenture has thousands of employees, it can afford to hire people to manage only a small portion of its business (in this case, the ‘Email Campaign Team’). PRINCE2 Foundation/Practitioner , which focuses on the PRINCE2 project management methodology. Real Web Project Management: Case Studies and Best Practices from the Trenches by Thomas J. The demand for digital project managers is booming.

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99 Reasons to Love (and Join) MPUG Now!

MPUG

Case studies are brought to you from around the world. What’s PRINCE2? Live weekly training webinars on project management using Microsoft applications. Webinars featuring time for Q&A with expert presenters. Many, many opportunities to earn PMI® PDUs.

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Project Management Solutions For Architects (The Ultimate Guide)

Scoro

Creative service industries such as architecture benefit greatly from project management, particularly in cases when architectural projects are being carried out at a large scale within a firm. Case study: Benefits of Scoro for architecture firms.

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20 Online Training Resources for Project Managers

Wrike

Accreditation: PMI Registered Education Partner; PRINCE2 Accredited Training Organization. . Accreditation: PMI Registered Education Provider, PRINCE2 Accredited Training Organization. Accreditation: PMI Registered Education Provider, PRINCE2 Accredited Training Organization, Scrum Alliance Registered Education Provider. Watermark Learning courses are built on interactive case studies, so students get hands-on, practical learning opportunities.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

A Taxonomy of Threats for Complex Risk Management,” Centre for Risk Studies, Research Programme of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, June 2014. “A Book, Business Cases and Acquisition Strategies, Ground Systems Architectures Workshop (GSAW 2002) , 13?15 Study on Risk Approaches in Software Development Projects,” Bransas Claudiu, Otniel Didraga, and Nicolae Bibu, Informatica Economic? ,

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

A Taxonomy of Threats for Complex Risk Management,” Centre for Risk Studies, Research Programme of the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies, University of Cambridge, Judge Business School, June 2014. “A Book, Business Cases, and Acquisition Strategies, Ground Systems Architectures Workshop (GSAW 2002) , 13?15 Study on Risk Approaches in Software Development Projects,” Bransas Claudiu, Otniel Didraga, and Nicolae Bibu, Informatica Economic? ,

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Project Management Glossary: 200+ Terms PMs Frequently Use

Epicflow Blog

Business Case . Case Study . Feasibility Assessment/Study . is a type of contract when a buyer pays a fixed price to a seller but the price can be changed in case the seller faces any of predesignated criteria associated with their performance. are data about a product or organization including planning issues, cases, processes, characteristics, historical information and other, used as inputs to planning projects. .

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Project Management Glossary: 200+ Terms PMs Frequently Use

Epicflow Blog

Business Case . Case Study . Feasibility Assessment/Study . is a type of contract when a buyer pays a fixed price to a seller but the price can be changed in case the seller faces any of predesignated criteria associated with their performance. are data about a product or organization including planning issues, cases, processes, characteristics, historical information and other, used as inputs to planning projects. .

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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. A case study of risk management in agile systems development,” Sharon Coyle and Kieran Conboy, 17th European Conference on Information Systems (Newell S, Whitley EA, Pouloudi N, Wareham J, Mathiassen L eds.),