Prince2 2017 Certification Foundation and Practitioner Guidebook

PRINCE2 is a project management system that is developed by accumulating years of best practice experience from government and commercial businesses and has led to a practical and process-based method that is intended to be applied in any project despite industry, technology, size, or complexity.

This book will cover the following topics, demonstrating the added value of PRINCE2 to you as an individual and to your organization. And describing the certification method and the different PRINCE2 certifications. Finally, I will give you an intro to the key components of the PRINCE2 project management method.

By the end of completing this book, you will be familiar with the PRINCE2 concepts and you will have a solid foundation to proceed on with your journey in the PRINCE2 practitioner certification.

• Introduction
• What Are Projects?
• Why Use PRINCE2^®?
• The Core Elements of PRINCE2^®
• PRINCE2^® and Other Project Management Methods
• Explaining PRINCE2^® Certification
• Why Get Certified?
• PRINCE2^® Certifications
• Foundation
• Practitioner
• Agile Professional
• Ways to Get Certified
• Membership Program
• PRINCE2^® Principles
• What Are Principles?
• Continued Business Justification
• Learn from Experience
• Defined Roles and Responsibilities
• Manage by Stages
• Manage by Exception
• Focus on Products
• Tailor to Suit Project Environment
• PRINCE2^® Project Organization
• Program vs. Project
• Projects in Context
• Project Organization
• Corporate vs. Project Organization
• Program Management
• Project Board
• The Project Manager and the Team Manager
• Project Assurance and Project Support
• The PRINCE2^® Process Model
• What Are Processes?
• The PRINCE2^®? Process Model
• Starting up a Project
• Directing a Project
• Initiating a Project
• Managing a Stage Boundary
• Controlling a Stage and Managing Product Delivery
• Closing a Project
• Getting Familiar with PRINCE2^® Themes
• What Are Themes?
• Developing the Business Case
• Organization Theme
• Quality Theme
• Plans Theme
• The Risk Theme
• The Change Theme
• Progress Theme

Nothing really wrong with it, as it covers most of the basic stuff very rapidly. BUT, there are no index, the table of contents are useless as there are no page numbers and everything is written in huge paragraphs, that makes ut hard to digest.

If you miss it, no big loss, but it can be read.