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Sizzling PRINCE2 7th Edition
Okay, you heard it first here, watch out for sizzling PRINCE2. it has been seven years since the last update to the official PRINCE2 Manual and exam syllabus, and during that time it has stood rock solid as the pinnacle of best-practice project management methodologies.
PRINCE2 is recognized across the globe as the most used and applied method for delivering successful projects. The availability of tools and schemes to help project management professionals gain exam success, fast-track their professional roles, and accelerate their careers.
There will be no PRINCE3, but the new PRINCE2 kid on the block has been thoroughly scrubbed, refined and bought bang up to date ready since its launch in the summer of 2017.
PRINCE2 7th Edition
Not content with just updating the official Manual and syllabus, the owners of PRINCE2 have also given their exam philosophy and schema a tweak and polish.
If it Ain’t Broke, Don’t Try To Fix It
So, my little PRINCE2 Argonauts, what has happened over the past eight years to stir the loins of the great and good who hold the keys to the world’s most successful project management method?
As you probably already know, since PRINCE2 is based on best practice, and feedback from the world’s community of project management practitioners has been constant, the consensus has been that the PRINCE2 house needs a thorough spring clean.
Two of the key drivers for this are the continuing rate of change of an organization’s working environments coupled with the ongoing push to achieve better for our customers and stakeholders.
Don’t worry, the bedrock of PRINCE2, its Principles, Processes and Practices remain firmly in place. But hold hard and be prepared to see a better step-by-step flow and readability within each theme.
But it doesn’t stop there.
One of the major thrusts of the update is an increased emphasis and focus on how PRINCE2 should be tailored to meet the needs of today’s organizations and the environments that a project must plan manage and deliver within.
The current PRINCE2 7th Edition Manual will not feel so isolated within its silos of chapters, as they now link very strongly back to the principles that benchmark the foundations of PRINCE2.
This has resulted in much stronger clearer links between the PRINCE2 Practices and Principles.
So, expect lots more great advice on Tailoring along with how to apply it along with many examples, with ovals of extra hints and tips. The PRINCE2 Manual is moving closer to becoming a “how-to” guide and less like an academic reference.
PRINCE2 7 – Your Flexible Friend
Yep! The Method has always had flexibility at the heart of it, and has the plumbing already built-in to easily tailor an individual project to the needs of any company or organization sponsoring projects…
… It’s now wearing its “go-faster stripes”
The approach and application of Tailoring now runs like a greased chute throughout the new method guide – and further infects the entire methodology within the PRINCE2 7th Edition update.
This sizzling update to the PRINCE2 methodology brims with an increased and consistent emphasis on the application and tailoring – while keeping the universal principles of the method rock solid.
Take a bow Agile
In the past, many folks of struggled to understand how the seemingly formal PRINCE2 methods could become good bedfellows with the agile approach to project management.
To remedy this, the PRINCE2 7th Edition spring clean now includes very specific help and guidance on adopting agile, and as you would expect, constant reference to the PRINCE2 Agile Manual.
Better yet, PRINCE2 includes powerful guidance on the absolute minimum use on a PRINCE2 7 project by carefully selecting and optimizing how the constituent parts should be tweaked to suit the size and complexity of an individual project.
Don’t panic PRINCE2 7 Argonauts
The friendly, loving and caring owners of PRINCE2, AXELOS, who have masterminded this important update, have allowed a crossover period to optimize the transition where both versions will be available from the 2023 launch, through to the end of 2024.
However, from the 1st of June the only English exams available for PRINCE2, will be based on the new PRINCE2 7th Edition version.
Interestingly, AXELOS is giving more flexibility to the method used for PRINCE2 practitioners to remain current.
You can indeed, take and pass the re-certification exam as before, but the new option exists where you take an active subscription to PRINCE2 Membership for three years, and complete the required 45 CPD points within those three years.
Now this PRINCE2 Membership is a great idea and keeps practitioners updated with valuable information, and is also a nice little earner for AXELOS.
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