PRINCE 2
A Practical Handbook
2nd Edition
Published on 6. December 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-7506-5330-5 (ISBN)
Description
Prince 2 is a flexible project management method, suitable for use on any type of project. It has been derived from professional Project Managers' experiences and refined over years of use in a wide variety of contexts. "Prince 2: A Practical Handbook" demonstrates how using "Prince 2" can provide a business-like start to a project, ensuring its viability and the effective use of resources before any large-scale expenditure is undertaken. It covers the main management concerns about a project such as initiation, controlling products, quality, risks, change and project closure, and concludes with descriptions of the normal management products of a project. It assessed as conformant with the concepts of "Prince Version 2" by the Prince User Group Ltd. This book is fully updated and revised to reflect the year 2001. The changes to "Prince 2" relates "Prince 2" to the practical issues of setting up and running a project.
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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
625 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7506-5330-5 (9780750653305)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
Book
04/1997
2nd Edition
Butterworth-Heinemann
€34.65
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Person
Colin Bentley has spent the last 40 years managing projects, large and small, across the world. He has worked with PRINCE2(R), PRINCE(R) and its predecessor, PROMPT II, since the 1970s and was one of the team that brought PROMPT II to the marketplace. As the main author of the original PRINCE2(R) manual, a former Chief Examiner in PRINCE2(R) for the Association for Project Management Group (APMG) and Lead Reviewer for the 2009 PRINCE2(R) manual, he is the perfect guide to real-world application of PRINCE2(R) beyond the classroom theory for project management success.
Content
Introduction; An overview of PRINCE 2; Starting up a project; Initiating a project (IP); Directing a project (DP); Controlling a stage (CS); Managing project delivery (DP); Managing stage boundaries (SB); Closing a project (CP); Planning (PL); Project organization; Plans; Project controls; Stages; Quality; The management of risk; Change control; Configuration management; Business case; Product-based planning; Quality review; Project filing; Project management team roles; Product descriptions; Forms.