Framworks and Tools For Sucesful Projects
The guidance within PRINCE2(r) & PMBoK Guide(r) is necessary but individually insufficient for project success.
When taken out of the context of an exam for an individual and restored to the position of guidance on how to collaborate the contents of both are vital, complimentary and almost entirely different.
Gaps & Value in PRNCE2® & PMBoK Guide®
Starting with basics the PMBoK Guide tells us how to estimate, how to develop schedule and budget, and how to track status but little on how the information flows between roles in the management team and beyond. PRINCE2 notes that we need to estimate, schedule, budget & track but omits description of how.
Instead p2 gives solid guidance on who creates what in what context and the flow of the information created. Two interlocking jigsaw puzzle pieces.
P2 omits HR and procurement while PMBoK includes it, PMBoK omits gating or approval points and structure while P2 majors on them. PMBoK has a stupid misnomer for the start of scope development (WBS versus its description) P2 corrects the naming and shares the intent & description. P2 goes off the rails right after the PBS but PMBoK is solid guidance all the way to baselined time cost & scope
Small Degree of Overlap
The only redundant overlap is both cover risk management, both have gaps and stupidities that the other generally corrects.
Finally sadly both have a scope that is supplier focused not customer, their advice helps developer not investor but that is corrected by adding Dimension Four® to the tool bag.
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1) Projects must work to and from the investor’s time-line – that means right to left planning of strategy, left to right planning of tactics and integration of the two and it means ‘deliver the value’ not ‘follow the process’.
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3) Use well know standards pragmatically – It means set-aside exam stupidities and use the tools and techniques of D4(r) to define the future_state_Business_As_Usual (fsBAU), use PRINCE2(r) to create a control structure for decision making and use PMBoK Guide(r) tools & techniques to build baselines, monitor performance and respond to achievements, problems, issues and risks, it means integrate project management framework and product life-cycle to accommodate any development pattern whether optimized for agility of development or whole life life-cost-of-ownership
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