{"id":4,"date":"2004-05-24T19:25:41","date_gmt":"2004-05-28T18:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2007-10-19T22:47:04","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T21:47:04","slug":"prince-2-foundation-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"Prince 2 Foundation – Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I attended a three-day QA <\/a>Prince 2<\/a> Foundation course.<\/p>\n

Including myself, there were nine delegates. Of course, being a project management course, there was an interesting skills mix: generally, though, everybody had some sort of IT background.<\/p>\n

The lecturer was excellent and made good use of humour throughout. I don’t know how he managed it, but he used to “B” word (questioning parentage) frequently, but never just for the sake of it: each time resulted in nine heads nodding followed by laughter.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, whilst I’ve not found this in the Prince 2 manual<\/a>, Prince 2 believes that the best way to mess up a project is to allow the users to change requirements. Now, those of you who know me will know that I have been attending Agile Scotland<\/a> meetings since February 2003\u2026 the agile modus operandi revolves around allowing users the opportunity to change requirements. I could see a quandary coming on\u2026<\/p>\n

During his introduction to Prince 2, the lecturer mentioned that an earlier version of Prince was seen as being bureaucratic and overcooked. \u201cYou must do this\u2026\u201d was a common phrase. Luckily, Prince 2 moves away from this approach, allowing the tailoring of Prince 2 to specific organisations and projects. After all, there\u2019s little point spending \u00a350K managing a \u00a310K project\u2026<\/p>\n

Prince 2 is mainly commonsense, however how often do we get time to apply commonsense? Interestingly, the Prince 2 manual takes 400 pages to describe its flavour commonsense.<\/p>\n

On the plus side, Prince 2 does expect us to get the customer involved and to get the user involved. This was seen as a good thing as it reduced any \u201cmoment of truth\u201d surprises that might crop up during project\/product delivery. I picked up another useful acronym, OSIHNTOT: \u201cOh s**t I had not thought of that.\u201d (Aw-shin-tot<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Here’s a screenshot of the Prince 2 process model:<\/p>\n

\"Prince<\/p>\n

I think that goes some way to proving why Scrum <\/a>works…<\/p>\n

Technorati Tags: Prince<\/a>, Prince 2<\/a>, Scrum<\/a>, Why Scrum Works<\/a>, common sense<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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