Tag: PRINCE2
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How to manage work
This article was written in response to a question from a 3rd year Computer Science student and it uses terms familiar to that domain. However the principles it puts forward are generally applicable and should be useful to any reader. What is “work”? “Work” is a verb, it doing something to create a Deliverable and it…
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Why is it often more difficult to manage a small project than a large one?
Ian Mitchell asks on Linkedin. I have spent the last 20 years a freelance consultant managing small hi-tech projects in large and small organisations. Examples include, satellite communications systems and integration of mail campaigns with data warehouses. Characteristics of small projects, the project manager is assigned 1 – 2 days/week people in your team will frequently also…
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SCRUM, PRINCE2 and ElephantPM
I have received several questions recently about how agile project management methodologies such as SCRUM can be used with deliverable-centric methodologies such as PRINCE2 or ElephantPM. ElephantPM is similar to PRINCE2 but is tailored for small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). Whereas ElephantPM is a generic methodology that can be used for almost any project,…
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When would you use PRINCE2?
PRINCE2 is a heavy methodology and may not be suitable for all projects. What do you think?
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How do you eat an elephant?
Project Management in general is a solved problem; the big project management methodologies PRINCE2 and PMBOK contain all the processes necessary to run a project and the best practices to keep everything running smoothly. They can be used to build everything from a nuclear submarine to a banking system. I will refer to PRINCE2 from…
Dr James Bayley 