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PRINCE2 Project Management
Apr. 19th, 2011 10:51 pmA little while ago I spent a week on a PRINCE2 course, getting my Foundation and Practitioner qualifications. I had a pretty low opinion of PRINCE2 going in and didn’t feel optimistic that the course could teach me much about being a good project manager, just about the very specific language and structure that PRINCE2 uses. I was solely doing the course to get the qualification, which a lot of jobs ask for.
I dutifully did the pre-reading of the hefty manual that was assigned to me, covering both the general overview and the introductions to the various themes, principles and processes that make up PRINCE2. I was pleasantly surprised to find myself thawing. The overall introduction gave a really good description of what project management should be about and the building blocks that should make it up. I found myself nodding along to a lot of it, what they were saying tallied with a lot of what I think and how I manage projects, I’d just never taken such pains to carefully structure and document my methods.
( Then I went on the course itself and all my original concerns were verified )
I dutifully did the pre-reading of the hefty manual that was assigned to me, covering both the general overview and the introductions to the various themes, principles and processes that make up PRINCE2. I was pleasantly surprised to find myself thawing. The overall introduction gave a really good description of what project management should be about and the building blocks that should make it up. I found myself nodding along to a lot of it, what they were saying tallied with a lot of what I think and how I manage projects, I’d just never taken such pains to carefully structure and document my methods.
( Then I went on the course itself and all my original concerns were verified )
