Medium sized projects with PRINCE2
For projects around 1-2 person months you need some, but not all, of the PRINCE2 artifacts. Whenever I have specified planning requirements for medium sized projects such as this I focus on the below....
View ArticleSmall projects with PRINCE2
One of the core principles of PRINCE2 is to amend the methodology appropriate to the project requirements. In my experience this almost always means cutting it down for small, short jobs. In the past I...
View ArticlePRINCE2 Best Practices
Best practices for PRINCE2 are called, confusingly, Principles. There are seven PRINCE2 principles and you can see how they fit into the structure of PRINCE2 in this diagram. The best practices (or...
View ArticlePRINCE2 processes
When I have gone through PRINCE2 with people (team members, user reps) who haven’t used the approach I have always found that they get confused over the structure. Yes, the book covers what to do in...
View ArticlePRINCE2 themes
Themes in PRINCE2 are approaches describing aspects of project management that must be addressed continually throughout the project and are therefore applied to the PRINCE2 processes at appropriate...
View ArticleStakeholder planning
Having performed stakeholder analysis the next stage is planning how you will engage them. There are lots of approaches to this, my favorite (as always) is to keep it simple. Regardless of whether you...
View ArticleProject based rightshoring
For over twenty years offshoring has been a major part of many UK companies delivery strategy. As you would expect, the industry has matured in that time and has fragmented in to a number of...
View ArticlePortfolio management
There is an established literature on IT portfolio management. I am particularly interested in how this works in an Agile environment, but before I can start to examine that aspect, it is valuable to...
View ArticleTeam leadership in IT
Its accepted that team management should be situational, based on a) the goals of the team and b) the team itself. The classic situational leadership diagram below goes from a directive model (lower...
View ArticleThe four types of goal driving reviews
Given the importance of staff motivation I’ve found it odd that many organisations have little structure around their annual review. Of course they have a process – typically timed around the annual...
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