PRINCE 2: A Practical Handbook (Computer Weekly Professional) - Softcover

Bentley, Colin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750653302 ISBN 13: 9780750653305

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0750653302
• ISBN 13: 9780750653305
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 384