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Whatever your project - no matter how big or small - PRINCE2 For Dummies, 2009 Edition is the perfect guide to using this project management method to help ensure its success.

Fully updated with the 2009 practice guidelines, this book will take you through every step of a project - from planning and establishing roles to closing and reviewing - offering practical and easy-to-understand advice on using PRINCE2. It also shows how to use the method when approaching the key concerns of project management, including setting up effective controls, managing project risk, managing quality and controlling change. PRINCE2 allows you to divide your project into manageable chunks, so you can make realistic plans and know when resources will be needed. PRINCE2 For Dummies, 2009 Edition provides you with a comprehensive guide to its systems, procedures and language so you can run efficient and successful projects.

PRINCE2 For Dummies, 2009 Edition includes:

Part I: How PRINCE Can Help You
- Chapter 1: So What's a Project Method and Why Do I Need to Use One?
- Chapter 2: Outlining the Structure of PRINCE2
- Chapter 3: Getting Real Power from PRINCE2

Part II: Working Through Your Project
- Chapter 4: Checking the Idea Before You Start
- Chapter 5: Planning the Whole Project: Initiation
- Chapter 6: Preparing for a Stage in the Project
- Chapter 7: Controlling a Stage
- Chapter 8: Building the Deliverables - the Work of the Teams
- Chapter 9: Finishing the Project
- Chapter 10: Running Effective Project Boards

Part III: Help with PRINCE Project Management
- Chapter 11: Producing and Updating the Business Case
- Chapter 12: Deciding Roles and Responsibilities
- Chapter 13:  Managing Project Quality
- Chapter 14: Planning the Project, Stages, and Work Packages
- Chapter 15: Managing Project Risk
- Chapter 16: Controlling Change and Controlling Versions
- Chapter 17: Monitoring Progress and Setting Up Effective Controls

Part IV: The Part of Tens
- Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Make PRINCE Work Well
- Chapter 19: Ten Tips for a Good Business Case
- Chapter 20: Ten Things for Successful Project AssurancePart V: Appendices
- Appendix A: Looking into PRINCE Qualifications
- Appendix B: Glossary of the Main PRINCE2 Terms

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17714 in eBooks
• Published on: 2010-04-09
• Released on: 2010-04-09
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

From the Back Cover
Includes expert advice on risk and change management.

Deliver quality projects on time and within budget.

PRINCE2™ is an essential project management method, helping users organise, manage, and direct their projects. This practical guide takes you through the ins and outs of the process, covering key procedures that allow you to get the most out of both your team and your project. Whatever industry you work in, and however large or small your project, this effective manual can help you achieve professional success and stay in control.

Explanations in plain English

Get in, get out′ information

Icons and other navigational aids

Tear–out cheat sheet

Top ten lists

A dash of humour and fun

Discover how to:

Use PRINCE2^TM methodology.

Map out your project.

Allocate roles.

Set up effective controls.

Control quality.

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About the Author
Nick Graham is the founder and managing Director of Inspirandum Ltd, a small and specialised company focused on achieving excellence in project approaches and methods in a practical way so that they can be applied intelligently an productively.

With a career that has covered both the public sector and the private sector, Nick  is able to communicate readily with managers in both communities. he′s been involved in project consultancy and training for m ore than 15 years and his experience with structured methods in projects goes back much further. In the PRINCE method it goes back to before it was even called PRINCE.

Nick is an experienced project practitioner and trainer and he′s also a qualified teacher. His work has taken him world wide, and those attending his courses have described his style as energetic, lively, fun, very practical, and very informative. Nick′s consultancy work has ranged from helping to plan complex projects to advising senior mangers on how to implement project and risk management methods thro9ughout their organisation.

When not away on consultancy or training assignments, Nick lives in Weymouth in Dorset. His company′s offices are on the tip of the Isle of Portland overlooking the sea and the famous Portland Bill lighthouse. His wife Kath also works for Inspirandum.

Nick is a member of the Association for Project Management (APM) and the Institute of Directors (IoD).