Those of you interested in project management probably are aware of the scarcity of free information regarding PRINCE2. Probably it’s due to the copyright claims (e.g. PRINCE2 manual is not distributed freely) and courses/training industry is attracting participants by not revealing a lot of the course content and materials, anyway.
Recently I was asked to review the PRINCE2 items provided by Knowledge Train. As a practitioner I was curious to browse through the free materials on their website and evaluate the result of their effort in summarising PRINCE2 in a couple of e-books. Surprisingly, everything I managed to read there is very useful. Not only the principles, the themes and the processes are explained well, the visuals (diagrams) are simply beautiful too. For example just looking at the ‘Starting-up a project visual’ makes it perfectly clear what is needed, in order to trigger the project, appoint people, why do you need a business case and what a lessons log is.
I remember when I first read the PRINCE2 manual – it took roughly two months to understand everything into details. And if somebody is up to the challenge of becoming a practitioner most probably the manual is still a must but why not starting with something simpler and easier to read. The e-books provided at the link below would definitely give you some overview and maybe even help decide if PRINCE2 is your ‘thing’ and if it would be useful for your organization and projects.
https://www.knowledgetrain.co.uk/prince2-ebooks.php
No comments:
Post a Comment