About PROJECT in a box

We developed PROJECT in a box to help individuals and organisation to deliver projects in a consistent way and in keeping with a chosen methodology. As practicing Project Managers and business managers ourselves we understood well from all perspectives the challenges that face the team, the PM and the organisation when people are inadequately supported in delivering their projects.

PRINCE2© was really taking off and its structure and language was being widely adopted so our idea was to produce a simple tool to guide users through the methodology and help them with the simple day to day tasks of document production and management. Community Edition was born as a free personal tool to test the concept and has gone on to be a great success with tens of thousands of users in over a hundred countries. In fact Community Edition is now given out by many PRINCE2 trainers to their delegates and used on University degree courses to support the teaching of Project Management.

With the concept proven we released the full PROJECT in a box product (originally called Professional Version), this built on the concepts of Community Edition but differed in four significant regards:

Was a multi user permissions based secure system;
Provided method flexibility, a set of pre scaled PRINCE2 methods and the ability for users to personalise or host bespoke methods
Included powerful set of tools including reporting, dashboards, Outlook and office integration, Indexing, Searching , notifications etc.
Was built in .NET enabling it to be quickly and easily deployed as a feature rich ‘application’, used in a lighter browser mode or integrated by API.

Since the full PROJECT in a box was released in late 2005 it has been steadily upgraded and extended to include new functionality deployment options and methods. Full PROJECT in a box is now used by well over 1,000 organisations in 25 countries, in addition to the UK there are sizable user countries in the Benelux region, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

The management team at PROJECT in a box are all seasoned project managers with over Thirty years of Project Management and 25 years of software experience between them. Managing Director Malcolm West was the winner of the APM’s Sir Monty Finniston Award for developing and implementing innovative methodology and competency/maturity framework improvements with AEA Technology in the late 90s.