PRINCE2 qualification in 5 days - that’s not news!
July 2, 2008
I saw an e-press release this morning from one of our competitors in the PRINCE2 training market. This was the classic non-news item. To paraphrase, they said that they had now launched the fastest PRINCE2 course in the world/universe/village where... Read more...
PRINCE2 - the future
June 5, 2008
The PRINCE2 2009 project is well under way, and we will see a new version of the method being launched, well, in 2009. pearcemayfield Head of Training, John Edmonds, is one of the Authoring team taking PRINCE2 on the next step of its development. Users... Read more...
Issue, Issue … We All Fall Down
May 10, 2008
How much time do you spend dealing with issues? How much are you driven by your Inbox, your Issue Log, or whatever you are supposed to react to? One warning light for most experienced auditors and consultants is if there is too much time being absorbed... Read more...
Who’s in Charge?
May 8, 2008
Driving home recently I was listening to a football discussion programme and one of the main topics was the current situation at Liverpool Football Club, where they appear to have a very confusing ownership/management/leadership structure which is causing... Read more...
PRINCE2 Training - the answer
April 10, 2008
If you want some training in PRINCE2 and you decide to let Google help you, my guess is that you will be more confused then ever. There is so much out there from the very good to the downright appalling. And that's just the quality of the training provider!... Read more...
PRINCE? There are other flavours than vanilla
February 21, 2008
Yesterday I met with a client and we explored was was for me very familiar territory. His organisation had invested recently in some PRINCE2(tm) training and was looking for options to sustain this investment. I sensed he wanted to go beyond the confines... Read more...
Patterns in the first PRINCE2 processes
October 26, 2007
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. --Albert Einstein Back in 1995, as the first PRINCE2 process design was drafted, we noticed some interesting patterns emerging. Initially the authors had designed separate processes... Read more...
An object lesson in PRINCE2 Practitioner Exam Success
August 30, 2007
There is quite a profound change happening in the next few days to the PRINCE2 Practitioner Exam. And we have had first hand experience of it. My colleague Andrew Rock was leading a modular PRINCE2 Practitioner course in Cardiff when APM Group contacted... Read more...
What the Butler apparently didn’t see …
July 12, 2007
My colleague, John Edmonds writes: In a recent news article on the Contractor UK Network there was a call for Gordon Brown to “turn his back on traditional methods of IT project management such as PRINCE2”. The logic given in the article for... Read more...
PRINCE2 Refresh: Re-Write is Underway
July 9, 2007
'PRINCE2 Refresh' is the title given to the latest project to redraft the PRINCE2 Project Management Guidance. We are looking at a fairly extensive project in this instance resulting in publication at the earliest towards the end of next year. Since... Read more...