Sue Hopgood 7 July 2017 The new edition of was published by AXELOS last month. I’ve have been eagerly awaiting this new release since it was announced in early January because ® was definitely due an update. The previous edition was published in 2009 and the project management world has evolved a fair bit over the last 8 years. Trainers like me are lucky enough to get draft versions of the final book and most of us have already taken the special trainer update exams, thus ensuring that the learning and development industry is ready to support a new set of courses and exams. So, what has changed in PRINCE2® 2017? Well, the methodology is much the same as it was, with a few subtle differences that I will discuss in a moment.

Cracking the Prince2 Foundation - Self Study. Through the managing-successful-projects-with-prince2-2009 version. Prepared PRINCE2 Foundation exam and want. Official PRINCE2 manual “Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2”. The official PRINCE2 Manual for the Project Manager is an excellent reference manual but can be rather difficult to pick up and read if you are new to both project management and PRINCE2.

Any of you already qualified in PRINCE2® will find that we still have the same principles, themes and processes. Large chunks of text are the same and we have some familiar diagrams and management products. There are differences, however. First let’s look at what has been added. As an instructor, I am very pleased to see a lot more emphasis on tailoring the methodology and practical advice on how this might be done in different project environments. And as an ex-software designer, I’m relieved that there is guidance for projects using an agile delivery approach in almost every chapter.

There are also clearer links between the principles and themes. So what has been taken away or adapted?

From an instructor’s point of view it is small but important (when it comes to the exams at least) language changes. The removal of capitals when naming processes, management products and role names is one that comes to mind. For example, the book refers to the senior supplier now rather than Senior Supplier, and initiating a project process rather than Initiating a Project process.

Personally, I think this makes it harder to pick out those important products, processes and roles from the text - but it also makes the methodology feel less prescriptive and more tailorable. If you are about to recertify soon, then note that the strategy documents that the 2009 edition recommended for risk, change, communications and quality have been renamed ‘approaches’. So instead of the Risk Management Strategy we now have the risk management approach. The recommended content, however, usually remains exactly the same. Probably the biggest change is that the Configuration Management Strategy has been renamed the change control approach and the configuration management procedure has been removed.

Another one to watch is that those supporting or maintaining the outputs of a project once the project has closed, like an IT service desk for example, are now more likely to be considered suppliers than users, which was how PRINCE2® 2009 clearly defined them. There are other small changes like this so it pays to read the book carefully. What about the exams? Any changes there? I’m getting asked a lot about this at the moment.

Axelos have used the new 2017 edition as an opportunity to revamp the way that PRINCE2® is examined. They have explained it, but below is a summary of the changes. Foundation: There isn’t much change in the way that the Foundation qualification is examined. Chris bryant ccna pdf 4shared. It is still one hour of multiple choice questions, with 25% extra time if English is not your first language, and the certification will never expire.

What has changed is the number of questions – 60 (down from 75) – and the pass mark (up 5%) to 55%. You will be pleased to hear that Axelos have also listened to feedback from the 2009 exams and the Foundation exam will now use less negative questions such as ‘Which of the following is NOT a principle of PRINCE2®?’ because despite putting the word in bold and in capitals, people still manage to miss out the ‘NOT’ in the stress of exam conditions. So, good news there, I think. Practitioner: This is still multiple choice and 150 minutes (plus the 25% extra time if English is not your first language) with a pass mark of 55%. Everything else has evolved. Firstly the one page scenario plus six to eight pages of ‘additional information’ used in the 2009 exams has been reduced.