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PRINCE2 Glossary

This is a copy of the PRINCE2 Glossary provided freely for use in the PRINCE2 user community by the Office for Government Commerce (OGC). The PRINCE2 Glossary is © Crown Copyright Office of Government Commerce. Reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Office of Government Commerce.

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PROJECT in a box Community Edition - Resources - Home

This page is your source for guidance and advice on getting the most from Community Edition and then a gateway to the rest of the PROJECT in a box website.

Latest Interest

Since its launch the Personal Edition has become the most popular upgrade route for Community Edition users, many coming as you have through this page to find out more. At only £99 for a personal Project Support Office this represents fantastic value, download the 10reasons2upgrade sheet for further information. Find out why....

Also proving to be very popular is the PIAB Office service which sees us hosting your PROJECT in a box server for you. With this approach you simply download your PIAB client or use the browser access to see your project documents over the internet alowing you to downlaod them from anywhere and share them with anyone you want, you can even access them from your Blackberry should you wish. You simply pick the number of users you want and pay monthly for as long as you want the service. Great value and you can be up and running in a couple of hours. Find out more...

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Community Edition Tour

The Tours page of the PROJECT in a box website contains a wide range of tours introducing you to the functionality of the product range. All tours are animated and include a commentary so all you have to do is sit back and watch.

View the Community Edition tour (11min) here to fiind out more.

Or for a full set of PROJECT in a box tours go to the Tour page home

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Community Edition Help

Community Edition is used by well over 20,000 users in 130 countries and by a number of users for two years or more but everyone has to start somewhere. We have tried to make Community Edition as easy to use as possible but if you are having some difficulties or have questions you want to ask you might like to consider the following resources

Flash tour - a ten minute run through of the key features, sit back & enjoy

On-line help - check the full help file on all the features

Knowledge Base - see what questions other users have asked

Support page - still no good? see how great the support is even on our free products!

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PRINCE2 Help

Community Edition is hardcoded to use full PRINCE2 so you will need to understand PRINCE2 reasonably well to get the most out of the product. To help you with this we have licensed the authentic PRINCE2 diagrams for you to use in the product and we can also provide you with the PRINCE2 template files and Glossary under licence from OGC.

Glossary - covering all the key PRINCE2 terminology

If this isn't enough to get you up to speed with PRINCE2 you might like to consider our additional authentic PRINCE2 materials for further support.

PRINCE2 on-line store - providing a range of PRINCE2 training courses

P2 Guidance Module - over a quarter of the PRINCE2 manual provided in a navigable MS help file and available context sensitively from the processes in your Community Edition for just £25+VAT. This is the most popular purchase by existing Community Edition users.

PRINCE2 Primer - everyone likes something for free so why not visit the PRINCE2 Primer which has brought together the best of free PRINCE2 resources available on the web into one place for your ease of viewing.

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PROJECT in a box Information

PROJECT in a box is the big brother to Community Edition and differs in four main ways:

It is a secure multi user web based system
It provides you with a range of PRINCE2 options in the form of P2ABC so you can be fully PRINCE2 compliant and also manage your smaller less complex projects with a lighter method within the same host system
It allows you to tailor your PRINCE2 methods and in fact to set up and use any derivative or bespoke method you want to for managing your projects
It provides significant additional functionality including dashboards, reporting, portfolios, notifications and Outlook integration

Even with all this it still manages to retain its ease of use and familiarity to a PRINCE2 process.

To find out more go to the PROJECT in a box Information Page

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Upgrade options

Many of our Community Edition users choose to upgrade to PROJECT in a box Personal Version and these are the reasons most often given for upgrading:

Fully PRINCE2 tailorable
MS Outlook email integration
Context sensitive authentic PRINCE2 guidance
Unlimited project templates
Reporting and dashboarding
Permissions based access (security model)
Portfolio management
Low price-to-benefit ratio to upgrade
Ease of expansion
Simplicity of upgrade

Download the 10reasons2upgrade sheet to read at your leisure.

You can find out more with tours, screen shots example reports and much more at the PROJECT in a box Information centre...

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Read a case study as published in the December 2006 Issue of Project Manager Today....

"We have now been running with PROJECT in a box for a year and it is used by a core team on around twenty projects. However with the Outlook integration facilities we can easily share documents with team members such as external contractors who don't have access to the system. I would say this file based nature is one of the system's greatest advantages" - Richard Saywell, Toshiba Information Systems (UK)

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Consultancy and Training

We do not provide implementation consultancy, development services or training for Community Edition as this is provided entirely for no commercial gain.

PROJECT in a box is supported by implementation consultancy and a range of product training courses. Of course we can also provide you with expert skills training courses in PRINCE2 and other project and programme management related fields, even combining these normally discrete elements to provide a valuable solution proposal for your organisation.

To find out more about Implementation Consultancy click here

To find out more about Training click here

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