The world's favourite personal PRINCE2™ tool
Used in 130 countries and by over 20,000 users
Community Edition is
the most popular personal PRINCE2™ system
available.
Providing powerful PRINCE2™ support for the new Practitioner
transitioning from training to real projects.
Over
50% of new Community Edition downloaders are coming on personal
recommendation from a colleague. If this is you, skip the
blurb
and go straight to register for your download or CD
in the post (UK only for CD option).
PROJECT in a box
are delighted to provide you with access to the Community Edition. This
product has been described as the "essential tool for
PRINCE2™ project management" and based on the caliber and
number of Project Managers using it we would have to agree.
Of course it might have something to do with the fact
that we give it away for free.....
That's right free, this is not a 'trial' offer, the
product
you download is not limited in capacity or in time meaning you can use
it as long as you want and on as many projects as you want. As it is an
installed piece of software rather than a hosted web platform, we can't
change our minds later and introduce a charge once you are using it.
This all makes sense but even we have been amazed by the rate at which
users have been adopting and using it since launch in Feb 2005.
Reviewed in June 2007 Community Edition was given 4 out
5 by the reviewers at the popular
project resources blogspot.
The latest Community Edition 1.4.0 includes the
following changes and improvements:
- All the new 2005 manual process diagrams.
- A new set of PRINCE2 templates to match the 2005
version of the manual.
- An extended help and guidance section.
- Training/Familiarisation Flash tours.
- Sample P2
Guidance Module.
If you are one of our existing users on an earlier version of Community
Edition, welcome back and we hope you will find the latest version even
more useful. Before you download and install the latest version please
read the relevant FAQs
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Community Edition delivers the core PROJECT in a box benefits
by helping you to improve the delivery of projects by the traditional
measures of time, cost and quality.
Today though with projects being the way that most
organisations deliver their activities and in particular with the
accelerating adoption of projects as a way of business for SMEs and the
service industry, additional benefits are being sought. Community
Edition has been developed with these needs in mind and will also
provide you with:
- No
adoption/implementation threshold - a system that is free,
very easy to implement, that can be populated using your existing
project documentation and will be available for your use within seconds.
- Scalable and
flexible system - Suitable for one to ten thousand
projects but really limited to personal use or the central
administration of small project teams. You can also evolve your
approach to delivering projects by altering the template structure and
contents (Community Edition only supports a single template).
- Organisational
learning - Build closely around PRINCE2™ and
with the OGC's Process maps, template documents and glossary included
the methodology is reinforced on the job.
- User centric
benefits
- although built around a strong process framework, when the user is in
the system it feels like the system supports the user and not the other
way around. It has become common for PM systems to become the center of
the business activity and the PM can feel like they are just feeding
the system, leading to low motivation, not with PROJECT in a box.
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Community
Edition provides the perfect blend of introduction level functionality.
The section below addresses some of these in more detail.
- PRINCE2™
structure - You navigate your project using the process
diagrams so familiar from the manual. Once at the required sub process
the system will show you which documents and files you should be
producing, reviewing or completing here.
- Document and file
management - View, sign in and out individual files or
whole documents using the very intuitive file explorer.
- Audit trail
- View the audit trail for documents so that you can see what changes
were made when and view the historic copies of the documents in
question.
- Manage your whole
project
- So many PM systems are built to let you manage the project but the
'doing' of the project is achieved more traditionally. Not with
Community Edition, the Specialist Products section lets you create your
required project structure outside the management products and manage
it all from the same interface, subject to the same audit trail. This
is more limited than is supported by the Professional edition.
- Document Index
- An alphabetic list of all the documents in the project to help you
find the file when you can't remember which process it is used in!
- Export
- You can
export the latest version of every file used in your project. This
collection of documents is packaged by the system for you into a folder
with an HTML navigator enabling you to post it to your intranet, send
to a colleague or archive on the completion of your project.
While clearly less function rich than the full
commercial PROJECT
in a box the Community Edition is aimed at bridging the gap
from training to using PRINCE2™ and for organisations who
want to see if a Project management system is for them without having
to put their hand in their pocket.
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In keeping with its ethos of keeping it simple the
Community Edition is very easy to deploy. All you need is a Microsoft
operating system W2K or newer and it can be installed on a desktop PC,
a laptop or ever a server (for local use) if you should wish.
Users install the software themselves using the guided
install
exe, we provide email support for free although 99.85% of our Community
Edition installs have not even required phone or email support because
of our extensive multi platform testing undertaken.
Due to the terms of our Licence to distribute Community
Edition we don't provide any commercial implementation consultancy or
training around this product.
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If you want more information you can take a Flash tour,
or contact us at enquiries@projectinabox.org.uk.
If you have already been convinced that this is the best
solution for you then you can proceed and download by registering using
the form below.
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Community Edition is a great starting place but as you
gain
confidence and experience in managing your projects you might be
looking to move on to something more powerful. To help you
keep
your PRINCE2™ processes authentic you can add our P2 Guidance Module
(only £25) but if you want additional functionality including
the
ability to share access to your projects with your colleagues then you
need to be looking at the commercial PROJECT in a box family
starting at just £99.
Review our full range of
Personal PRINCE2™ products here.
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