Karen Swanston, one of our experienced trainers, will be speaking at the upcoming Project Challenge Expo in Olympia, London on 22 March. Make sure you see her 2pm session, unravelling the project management conundrum with PRINCE2.

When getting to grips with PRINCE2, a common cause for confusion is the difference between ‘Starting Up a Project’ and ‘Initiating a Project’. This blog will not only explain the distinction between the two, but how together they guarantee the best start for your project.

PRINCE2 today is the de facto project management standard. The UK government in the 1980s demanded a solution to common project problems. They were struggling to deliver on time, under budget, within scope and up to quality. Like many private companies, they wanted a method focused on deliverables.

5 March 2020 Update: PRINCE2 2017 has since been renamed PRINCE2 6th Edition. The Foundation and Practitioner examinations are also now available in German, Dutch, Polish, Danish, French and Norwegian.

After receiving global community feedback and reviews from over 100 project management professionals, AXELOS unveiled PRINCE2’s first major update since 2009.

Happy New Year from all of us at PRINCE2! For many, the New Year marks a reinvigorated focus on short and long-term goals, and therefore, in the spirit of new beginnings, we wanted to provide a guide on the best way to start up a project.

Many people assume that small-scale projects are easy to manage and don’t need as much diligence. However without best practices, any project can exceed its tolerances or get cancelled entirely. Often, communication is poor and project managers drift from the PRINCE2 framework. Here are a few pointers to handle these issues and adapt PRINCE2 to smaller projects.

Learn from experience is one of PRINCE2’s 7 principles. However, when mistakes are made on projects, there is often a desire to scrub the past and start over with a new team for the next project. That’s understandable, but a lack of continuity doesn’t prevent mistakes from being repeated. What PRINCE2 teaches is the value of mistakes. They’re part of the learning process, and by nailing them down, you can often prevent repeat mistakes without having to overturn the project team.

You may be unsure of how PRINCE2 Practitioner differs from Foundation. Perhaps want to know how to make the advancement to Practitioner level. Or it could be that you don’t have a Foundation qualification and want to jump straight to Practitioner.

PRINCE2® has often been called the de facto project management methodology. It was born from PRINCE, a UK government standard only meant for information systems. However, over the last few years, it’s been reinvented and continually upgraded. This is why there are so many benefits of PRINCE2 for organisations and individuals that adopt its methodology.

PRINCE2, despite – or maybe due to – its popularity, is subject to a lot of misconceptions. Here are 5 of the most common myths about PRINCE2 out there.