Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Any Prince 2 Practitioners/ITIL people? (Project Managers)

[guest1]

If you wanna hook Dibble, ask him about Gay Lap Dancers at Oulton Park

[Clippy]

Tony,

PRINCE2 is the way to go if you want to be UK based and stay that way. Get your practioner and then possibly move on to do the MSP (Managing Successful Programmes) stuff as well - there's more money in Programme Management...

If you're planning to use this further afield than the UK then P2 is not recognised anywhere else as it's a UK Government driven standard. For this you should be looking at PMI/OPM3 as the way forward (recognised across Europe and the US - don't know about any further afield).

Good luck - it's mostly common sense and remembering the right buzz words!!!

Giles

[KP]

I am Prince2 qualified , about 3 or 4 years now but I am not IT based as I run the Banking Operations for an international Bank. I chose Prince2 because it was a government recognised standard (making me transportable) and is flexible depending on how use/apply it.

It is acknowlegded in the Netherlands certainly - I work for a Dutch Bank - as well as the US, but not officially recognised. As correctly pointed out, in the US they would tend to look more towards PMI.

There are some good on-line tuition courses with Prince - www.ksl.org give them a look. I did a five day residential course in Windsor and was fortunate to have my employer pay.

Give me a u2u if you qwant to have a chat about it.

all the best

kp

TP & guest1,

Put those fishing rods away .......

Now back to the question at hand ...

TP, Prince2 is genuinely recognised as an industry standard, hence PWC & Accenture encouraging their consultants to take the examinations, it has a far higher value than MCSE etc ...

Hope that helps.

Dibs

[guest1]

Aw shucks, he sniffed the bait and refused it

Prince2 was software of choice at Sun
BuNFuL tended to use MS and another whose name escapes me.

[TP]

Ok, I've already decided to do the Prince2 Practitioner exam ... now I need some study materials. All I can find so far is CBT courseware for £1300!!!!!

All I really want are some books ... can someone help me here?

[Ozz]

Blimey I am sure some of this thread was in english but I am buggered if I could make it out!

[KP]

I have my course book although its been updated since then I think. Happy to lend it to you - let me dig it out.

If you want to sit the Basic it may well do you, if you do the Practitioners you might want the most recent version. I think they retail at about £80.

I will see what info I can gather over the next few days and then U2U you.

[TP]

Originally posted by KP
I have my course book although its been updated since then I think. Happy to lend it to you - let me dig it out.

If you want to sit the Basic it may well do you, if you do the Practitioners you might want the most recent version. I think they retail at about £80.

I will see what info I can gather over the next few days and then U2U you.

Where can I get them from KP? The practitioners one for £80?

[Clippy]

www.tso.co.uk

PRINCE2 manual for £58.50 at the moment.

Go for it - join those of us who plan and direct but never actually produce anything

Giles