PRINCE2 Refresh: Re-Write is Underway
'PRINCE2 Refresh' is the title given to the latest project to redraft the PRINCE2 Project Management Guidance. We are looking at a fairly extensive project in this instance resulting in publication at the earliest towards the end of next year.
Since I was one of the four authors recently involved in the Refresh of OGC's companion Best Practice Guide on Programme Management - MSP - I was invited to a meeting in Westminster last Friday and advise on PRINCE2's alignment with MSP.
It was a very stimulating meeting, led by the leader of the authoring team, Andy Murray, who began by presenting back the various comments, and the patterns of comments and issues raised over the last few months by numerous different people. It's gratifying to see concepts and principles we wrote into the first edition that launched PRINCE2 in 1996 that have weathered pretty well over the last eleven years.
Yet I was appalled to hear reports of the ignorance of a minority of issue contributors - not people at the meeting, I stress - commenting so negatively on PRINCE2, where their comments clearly betrayed a deep misunderstanding of both what it really contains and how it should be used. (More on that in another post.)
Once again, an NDA prevents me from saying too much more about the contents of the Refresh right now. As and when I can, I will keep you posted.
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