Project Management in Practice

Beyond the alphabet soup of PRINCE2, MSP, PMBOK, ITIL, Agile

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Do procurement processes allow Agile software delivery?

1 Comment Posted by on March 26, 2012

Longer projects run, higher likelihood of project failure. One of the moves in recent times to reduce complexity in software development is to adopt Agile delivery approaches. The desire to build confidence and leave tangible benefits even if projects are cancelled has provided further impetus to adoption of Agile practices. This approach has delivered good [...]

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How do I handle external pressure?

2 Comments Posted by on March 5, 2012

Project management principles are the same world over. However, the application of those principles vary widely depending on the type of organisation you are in and the type of external pressures you face. Here I use the word external to mean influences outside the project, rather than the organisation. PMBOK and PRINCE2 contend that the [...]

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Business Cases in PRINCE2

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 28, 2011

I went to the New Zealand PRINCE2 User Group meeting on Thursday. The group promotes a collegial approach to the Project Management body of practice. The topic of the gathering was Business cases in PRINCE2. This was an interesting discussion with a specific example of a project where a tertiary education provider is undertaking a business [...]

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PRINCE2, ITIL, Agile … can I have the best of all?

12 Comments Posted by on April 14, 2011

There is a lot of discussion about what the best methodology is to adopt for an organisation. As soon as the discussion moves in that direction, it moves away from realities of any Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Projects simply do not mushroom out of thin air. Something causes a realisation in the organisation that [...]

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How to avoid delivering a white elephant

2 Comments Posted by on April 13, 2011

I was recently having an interesting discussion with some of my peers on a project management forum. We were talking about how to ensure the projects we deliver do not end up being white elephants. This is an interesting question to ponder from a project manager‘s point of view. In a PRINCE2 project, one of [...]

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