The Concise PRINCE2® - Principles and essential themes: Third edition

By Colin Bentley

Succeed as a PRINCE2® practitioner with this concise overview.

PRINCE2 is the leading model for effective project management methodology. PRINCE2 certification will help you implement projects across your organisation efficiently, creating a controlled and manageable environment for employees.

This guide explains the fundamental principles of PRINCE2 2017, enabling you to review essential themes before taking your PRINCE2 Foundation exam. Following accreditation, it serves as a reference guide to help you manage ongoing PRINCE2 projects within your organisation.

Ideal for anyone involved with implementing a new project that uses the PRINCE2 framework, whether you are a student, project board member or team manager, this guide will help you:

• Prepare for your PRINCE2 2017 Foundation exam;
• Implement PRINCE2-aligned projects; and
• Enhance your skills as a PRINCE2 practitioner.

Key features:

• Concise summary of the fundamental principles and themes of PRINCE2 2017.
• Clear and comprehensible format.
• Serves as a reference guide while you manage ongoing PRINCE2 projects.

New for the third edition:

• Updated to align with PRINCE2 2017.
• New diagrams to aid understanding of the framework.

A succinct reference guide that summarises the key elements of PRINCE2 2017 – buy this book today to get the help and guidance you need!

PRINCE2® is a registered trade mark of the PeopleCert group. Used under licence from PeopleCert. All rights reserved.

• Language: English
• Publisher: itgovernance
• Release date: Mar 12, 2019
• ISBN: 9781787780620

Colin Bentley

Colin Bentley has been a project manager since 1966 and has managed many projects, large and small, in several countries. He has been working with PRINCE2, PRINCE and its predecessor, PROMPT II, since 1975. He was one of the team that brought PROMPT II to the marketplace, wrote the major part of the PRINCE2 manual and is the author of all revisions to the manual until the 2009 version. He was the Chief Examiner for PRINCE2 from its beginning until 2008 and wrote all Foundation and Practitioner exam papers, and marked them until they reached the massive volumes that are sat today. Now retired, he has had over twenty books published, has lectured widely on PRINCE2 and has acted as project management consultant to such firms as The London Stock Exchange, Microsoft Europe, Tesco Stores, Commercial Union and the BBC. He still writes books on the PRINCE2 method and has updated them all to reflect the 2009 version.

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