Agile and The Prince 2 Principles

Question 1

Summarise the Prince2 Principles

Answer 1

• Universal
• Self-validating
• Empowering

° Provide a framework for good practice to all project people

1. Continued Business Justification
2. Learn From Experience
3. Defined Roles and Responsibilities
4. Manage By Stages
5. Manage By Exception
6. Focus on Products
7. Tailor to Suit the Project

Question 2

Provide an overview of the guidance when applying the Prince2 Principle in an Agile Context: Continued Business Justification

Answer 2

• The term ‘value’ is used instead of ‘benefit’
• The rationale for creating MVP needs to be understood. Attention to it from Project Management throughout project

Question 3

Provide an overview of the guidance when applying the Prince2 Principle in an Agile Context: Learn from Experience

Answer 3

• Many Agile concepts support this
• Used to promote continual learning
- eg. Shortening feedback loops, continual customer involvement, inspect and adapt, retrospectives and Kaizen

Question 4

Provide an overview of the guidance when applying the Prince2 Principle in an Agile Context: Defined Roles & Responsibilities

Answer 4

• Additional Agile roles at delivery level, which should be mapped and merged carefully to P2 roles

Question 5

Provide an overview of the guidance when applying the Prince2 Principle in an Agile Context: Manage by Stages

Answer 5

•Significant timeboxes like releases carefully planned to integrate into management stages
• In situations of high uncertainty, many short stages used for control and a fail-fast/learn-fast environment exists

Question 6

Provide an overview of the guidance when applying the Prince2 Principle in an Agile Context: Manage by Exception

Answer 6

• Vitally used to empower people to self-organise and stay in control with appropriate level of governance.
• In terms of Agile, a greater emphasis on allowing tolerance on deliverables and restricting tolerance on time/cost

Question 7

Provide an overview of the guidance when applying the Prince2 Principle in an Agile Context: Focus on Products

Answer 7

• Product descriptions, quality criteria and quality tolerances can be prioritised and decomposed to allow Flexing on deliverables possible. Making control/delivery value focus easier

Question 8

Provide an overview of the guidance when applying the Prince2 Principle in an Agile Context: Tailor to suit the project environment

Answer 8

• P2Agile incorporates an Agile assessment tool (Agilometer) to further specific tailoring by assessing Agile risks in the project environment