PRINCE2: 2009 Project - The story so far
- 08 Feb 2008 16:04
Hello and welcome to the first of a series of progress reports for the PRINCE2: 2009 Project.
The PRINCE2: 2009 Project started in November 2006 with a six month period of public consultation. The purpose of the consultation was to gather feedback in terms of likes/dislikes for the current version of the method and to capture ideas for improvements.
I was appointed as Lead Author in April 2007. My first task was to collate the feedback from the public consultations and produce a Public Consultation Report. Much has been achieved since I first sifted through all of the feedback from the consultation:
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The Public Consultation Report was published in June 2007
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A Reference Group meeting was held to evaluate the feedback from the Public Consultation and to provide recommendations to OGC for the Mandate for Change
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OGC’s Mandate for Change was published in June 2007
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The rest of the Authoring Team was appointed (more on this later!)
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A Review Group meeting was held in July 2007 to evaluate OGC’s Mandate for Change and to provide recommendations to the Authoring Team for how to refresh the method in accordance with the mandate
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The Authoring Team had a three day workshop to enable them to develop a Scoping Document and Product Descriptions for the refresh.
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The Scoping Document and Product Descriptions were submitted to the Review Group for comment.
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The updated Scoping Document and Product Descriptions were then approved by the Project Board.
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A Design Review was held with a subset of the Review Group – where the authoring team presented the draft Principles (that underpin the method) and the chapter level Product Descriptions.
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The Principles (chapter 2 in the new manual) were submitted to the wider Review Group for comment.
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The Principles have been updated and the authoring of the publications has begun!!
You can download all of the project’s approved documentation on the best-management-practice website. These include:
- Public Consultation Report
- OGC Mandate Scoping Document
- PRINCE2 Method (Product Description)
- PRINCE2 In Practice: Managing a Project (Product Description)
- PRINCE2 In Practice: Directing a Project (Product Description)
The first draft manuscripts will be ready for review in February and March, after which some pilots will begin.
Don’t forget to tune into the next progress report - which will introduce the rest of the Authoring Team and the outline plan for the rest of the refresh.
PRINCE2: 2009 Lead Author Bio 
Andy Murray is a Chartered Director and PRINCE2 Registered Consultant (P2RC), and has worked in the field of projects and programmes for over 15 years. He is currently a director of Outperform UK Ltd (www.outperform.co.uk), an Accredited Consulting Organisation (ACO) licensed to consult in the OGC’s best practice trilogy of PRINCE2, MSP and M_o_R. Andy was an early adopter of PRINCE2 back in 1997, and has been helping organisations implement and gain value from PRINCE2 ever since.
He has helped implement PRINCE2 in numerous organisations in more than a dozen countries. Andy is a recognised expert in using maturity models to help diagnose organisations’ strengths and weaknesses as a means to prioritise and plan improvement initiatives and measure progress.
Andy is the co-author of Improving Project Performance Using the PRINCE2 Maturity Model (P2MM).
