PRINCE2

The PRINCE2 Challenge

You are new to PRINCE2™, perhaps just back from the training course and have passed the exams. You want to start using your new PRINCE2 skills on a real project. Open the PRINCE2 manual and begin with Starting up a Project. Now you're creating PRINCE2™ products. Then the problems start......

• Where do you store these documents?
• How are you going to share them with others?
• How will you control them?
• What about backups and archives?

“How are you going to make time to manage all this?”

The Authentic PRINCE2 Solution

All the products in the PROJECT in a box range of software provide you with the same core authentic PRINCE2 capability…… a knowledge management system tuned to match exactly your needs. Using the familiar PRINCE2 process diagrams and names you have already learned, you can get straight to the documents you need for any of the PRINCE2™ processes.

In addition PROJECT in a box comes with a full set of PRINCE2™ templates and Glossary for you to use if you wish, helping you to continue your learning and bed in your new skill set.

PROJECT in a box does your version control, PRINCE2 configuration management, sharing and archiving. By taking away the burden of managing your PRINCE2 documents, it frees up your time to do the real job of managing your projects.

So you can now show your customers and colleagues that you really are applying PRINCE2™ professionally and you can get this for free with Community Edition our Free PRINCE2 Software product.

A Complete PRINCE2 Solution

Most organisations find that once they come to understand PRINCE2™ they want to change it, sometimes in subtle ways and sometimes significantly to match more precisely their needs, practices and culture of their organisation.

Most of the available PRINCE2™ products on the market have hardcoded the requirements of the standard PRINCE2™ model, it's key management products and workflow into their solutions making it a time consuming and expensive activity to tailor the methodology to suit you. Inevitably most organisations decide instead to change themselves to match the software leading to cultural issues such as resistance from their employees.

We don't believe this is very helpful! so with the commercial PROJECT in a box family of products you can have Enterprise PRINCE2 software and can make all the following changes to your PRINCE2™ project structure:

• Add or remove sections in documents
• Remove the requirements for certain management products or add new ones
• Provide additional guidance or checklists
• Replace elements of PRINCE2™ with your own existing business process documentation e.g. company quality manual and procedures
• Use which ever project planning tool you wish
• Modify the PRINCE2 process diagrams or replace them with your own method
• Use a different format of Issue, Risk and Quality logs or a separate product if you prefer

And all this is standard functionality under admin control in the PROJECT in a box family. You can create any number of these revised Project 'method templates' and use them to create new projects and new stages as new projects are launched. What's more PROJECT in a box also enables you to change the process diagrams which form the basis of navigating the system enabling you to have exactly the PRINCE2™ management solution you want which can evolve with your needs, not being stuck with what your vendor thinks you need!

 Want to know more?......try our excellent PRINCE2 Primer giving you the best of information sources on PRINCE2 available on the web.

Beyond PRINCE2

PROJECT in abox can now also host your Programmes with our Managing Successful Programmes method template.  Like with our approach to PRINCE2 the method template uses diagrams and other Authentic materials under licence from OGC.

With PROJECT in a box you can integrate and share in realtime key documents between your Programme and your Projects and can report on your Portfolio of projects.