Contents

About the author

Acknowledgements

1 Introducing PRINCE2. Welcome to the family

Introduction

What’s a project?

What does PRINCE2 bring to the party?

What’s in this book?

2 The PRINCE2 framework. The big picture

Introduction

PRINCE2 principles

PRINCE2 themes

PRINCE2 processes – the big picture

PRINCE2 processes – the smaller picture

Summary

3 PRINCE2 and people. Meet the team

Introduction

Customers, suppliers and hangers-on

Project management team

The management line

The view from 30,000 feet to three

Friend or foe?

Summary

4 Pre-project. Sorting the wheat from the chaff

Introduction

Starting up a project

Directing a project – opening act

Summary

5 Business case. Why, oh why?

Introduction

What’s in a business case?

Techniques for describing benefits

Investment appraisal

A measure of success

Business case lifecycle

Summary

6 Initiation stage. Blueprints and foundations

Introduction

Initiating a project

Managing a stage boundary

Directing a project – act two

Summary

7 Plans, quality and risk. Prepare to take control

Introduction

The plans theme

The quality theme

The risk theme

Summary

8 Subsequent delivery stage(s). Wagons roll!

Introduction

Controlling a stage

Managing product delivery

Directing a project – the show goes on

Summary

9 Change and progress. Staying in control

Introduction

The change theme

The progress theme

Summary

10 Final delivery stage. A controlled stop

Introduction

Closing a project

Directing a project – the final act

Summary

11 The final word. The magic ingredients for success

Complicated or comprehensive?

Running themes

One size doesn’t fit all

Built to succeed

Index

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