Features & Benefits--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Explains the Method
Shows the trips, tricks, traps and techniques of setting up, running and delivering a successful project
Debunks the beief that small projects cannot efficiently use project management methods
Description
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PRINCE2 Revealed sets out to illustrate that the use of management methods, even in smaller projects is not costly in terms of either time or money. Using the PRINCE2 Project Management Method can, in fact, save time and money whilst ensuring a higher standard of product or service. This book is suitable for Project Managers, Consultants or IT Managers, or those involved in PRINCE2 at any level. PRINCE2 Revealed has a section relevant to those who have previously used PRINCE2 on a large scale and want to know how to downsize it, or those who have experience of small projects but little or no prior knowledge of PRINCE2.
This book has been specifically written to:
Allow you to gain results with no prior knowledge of PRINCE2
Help you deliver projects to higher standards
Explain many elements of the method that the manual defines in rather vague terms
Explain how to employ PRINCE2 in the management of small projects
Save you time and money
Teach you only what you need to know of PRINCE2 to succeed in small projects
Contents
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Introduction; Part I: An Overview of PRINCE 2 Starting Up a Project; Initiating a Project; Direct a Project; Directing a Project; Controlling a Stage; Managing Product Delivery; Managing Stage Boundaries; Closing a Project; Planning; Business Case; Project Organisation; Plans; Project Controls; Quality; Risk; Change Control; Configuartion Management; Product-Based Planning; Quality Review Part II: Prince 2 Revealed The Project Mandate; Appointing the Executive; Appointing the Project Manager; Designing a Project Management Team; Decision Making; Writing a Project Brief; Writing Acceptance Criteria; Configuration Management; The Business Case; Project Issues; Quality; Risk; Setting Tolerances; Refining the Business Case & Risks; Planning; Writing a Product Description; Creating a Work Package; Assessing Progress; Highligh Report; On Taking Over From Another Project Manager; End Project Report; Follow-on Action Recomendations; Lessons Learned Report; Post Project Review Plan Part III: Managing Small Projects CHow to Manage Really Small Projects; Scaleable Smaller Projects; A Matrix Approach; A Scaled-Down Project Life Cycle; Chiselling Away; Managing Projects at GCHQ; Part: IV Summary
Readership: Project Managers, Consultants, IT Managers and all those who intend to implement it, are the clients of a contractor who will use it, or will participate in a project being managed according to PRINCE 2 guidelines.
