Prince 2 in London

[dwayne]

Having taken a perm job and, in turn, taken a massive pay cut I may as well get as much as I can out of them...

Has anyone been on any Prince 2 courses in London (that have been any good) Ive taken the foundation - I just need to do the practical.

Any feedback will be appreciated.

 

[Beach Hut]

Done the foundation with the multiple choice and passed but failed the written one.

It is really a method of doing a project so one person's theory sold a thousand times (something I bet you wish you had done Dwayne). Personally it taught me nothing I did not know about running a project but I did learn I am too old to take an exam !

BTW Dwayne, how will you cope on less money ?

 

[ROSM]

Did my Prince 2 qualification through the Open University. there was a time you needed to have this to undertake contracts with government agencies hence why i did mine. However, that requirement was dropped so have NEVER needed to use it in anger.

Like Beach Hut - did think it was a thinly veiled money making scheme with some very real deficiencies in both risk assessment and statement of works scheduling

Realistically, internally I use Risk Based Project Management as well as embarking on 6 sigma which is a key discipline when undertaking projects which have a customer service/process elements

edited to thank Dwayne for taking a pay cut - at least I might get a bonus now and will be able to feed the animals at Christmas

 

[dwayne]

Did my Prince 2 qualification through the Open University. there was a time you needed to have this to undertake contracts with government agencies hence why i did mine. However, that requirement was dropped so have NEVER needed to use it in anger.

Like Beach Hut - did think it was a thinly veiled money making scheme with some very real deficiencies in both risk assessment and statement of works scheduling

Realistically, internally I use Risk Based Project Management as well as embarking on 6 sigma which is a key discipline when undertaking projects which have a customer service/process elements

edited to thank Dwayne for taking a pay cut - at least I might get a bonus now and will be able to feed the animals at Christmas

Ha I never contracted here.

I pretty much know that Prince 2 is hopeless in real world terms but it adds a few bob to my rate when I eventually go out contracting again!

All these methodologies are pretty much the same anyway I tend to find, and as you mentioned earlier the bank we work for is supposed to use RBPM as standard but no formal training is ever offered up and nobody can seem to get their head round it.

 

[Hannibal smith]

Mindscope or Knowledgepool do ours. I think the foundation and practioner is about £1500. The one I did was with Knowledgepool six years ago at Beaumont (near Windsor) and the trainer was very good.

Unless you manage Government Projects no-one uses the methodology in its entirity but every Project manager sticks it on his CV that they do.

The Practioner is easy enough to pass if you have a uni background. At our place, all fresh faced uni graduates passed the exam. Any self taught PM tends to fail. The exam is also open book and if your lucky you might have an old exam paper with a model answer for the question. It think it was a book by Paul Bradley that had the model answers.