PRINCE2 Practitioner
The PRINCE2 Practitioner qualification is the pinnacle of the PRINCE2 tree and is quite rightly seen as a must have requirement for Project Management roles in the UK and increasingly in Europe and the rest of the world.
Passing your PRINCE2 Practitioner exam is something to be proud of but in terms of successful delivery of projects using PRINCE2, it is just the start.
As a professional project manager operating in the real world you need the tools to support you. You would never dream of planning and resourcing a project on paper, you would use MS Project or a similar tool. The same applies to the management of your methodology and documentation, a tool can be invaluable in helping you deliver successfully and free your time form the mundane tasks to focus on where you can add real value.
PROJECT in a box provide the most popular family of PRINCE2 software products and has something for every scale of PRINCE2 implementation.
Community Edition is perfect for the project manager while training and to support the first few PRINCE2 projects. Being free it is a great way of getting started.
Personal Edition has been designed specifically around the needs of the lone PRINCE2 project manager. It is portable, comes with the popular prescaled lighter PRINCE2 methods, email integration and reporting capability all for just £99.
Small Team Edition enables a team of up to 20 people to interact on documents with the PM, with the PM setting permissions to control access and monitor activity. Straightforward to install and you can even share access with customers and suppliers. All for £999.
Enterprise Edition is focused on supporting teams, departments even whole organisations with the range of methodologies they need including PRINCE2 at all scales and Managing Successful Programmes. As such it is more often a departmental or corporate implementation although existing projects which may be being managed by PRINCE2 Practitioners using Community Edition, Personal Edition or Small Team Edition can be loaded into the Enterprise Edition Server if required.
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Community Edition provides the full PRINCE2 2009 and PRINCE2 2005 methods with official templates, navigation structure and guidance tips. Free software to use as long as you want. Download here.
All PROJECT in a box commercial packages provide extended versions of the free methods above; the very popular pre scaled PRINCE2 methods which are suitable for smaller less complex projects. With these packages you can also personalise/customise your methods.
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PRINCE2 Resources
The following links allow you to explore some of the PRINCE2 areas:
Or why not find out more about other project and programme methodologies:
Managing Successful Programmes
ITIL
PMI/PMBok