PRINCE2 Flashcards
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What is different about Agile to PRINCE 2
Agile can be used for projects and Business as usual
What are a projects characteristics?
Temporary
Team is created
Difficult
A degree of uncertainty
What are the BAU characteristics?
Ongoing
Stable team
Routine
A degree of certainty
What does BAU look like?
BAU is repeatable routine tasks that can be carried out with the appropriate technical skills without needing to be managed by a Project Manager. An example would be the modifications or enhancements of an existing product and the timescales are relatively short.
What does a project look like?
A project is a temporary situation where a team is assembled to address a specific problem, opportunity or change that is sufficiently difficult that cannot be handled as BAU
Who are projects managed by?
Project manager
What are a few challenges a project faces in its lifecycle?
Team based in different locations
Team personnel may change
may last a long time
it may be part of a wider programme of work
How can a project be agile?
An agile project is responsive, incremental, flexible and responds to the environment.
Define a timebox
A finite period of time when work is carried out to achieve a goal or meet an objective.
What is a low level timebox?
A low level time box lasts days or weeks (e.g. a sprint)
What is a high level timebox?
A high level time box acts as an aggregated timebox and contain low level timeboxes (e.g. stages)
The list of work in a BAU environment is known as what?
Timebox
what is the strength of PRINCE 2 framework?
It provides project direction and management
What is the weakness of PRINCE 2?
It provides little focus on product delivery.
BAU is…
routine ongoing work and does not need a project manager.
Is a scrum effective in PRINCE 2 or BAU?
BAU
What are the four integrated elements of PRINCE 2?
Principles
Themes
Processes
Project environment
Principles?
the guiding obligations and good practices which determine whether the project is genuinely being managed using PRINCE 2?
Themes?
Describe aspects of project management that must be addressed continually and in parallel throughout the project
Processes?
Describe a progression through the project lifecycle, from getting started to project closure
Project environment
tailoring PRINCE 2 to create a project management method for a specific organisation
Key principles of PRINCE 2?
- Continued business justification
- learn from experience
- defined roles and responsibilities
- manage by stages
- manage by exception
- focus on products
- tailor to suit the project environment
Benefits of PRINCE 2?
Best practice and governance
Tailored to meet specific needs and scaled to the size and complexity
ease of use
stakeholders are properly represented
promotes continual improvement
PRINCE 2 definition of a project?
A temporary organisation that is created for the purpose of delivering one or more business products according to an agreed business case