The Concise PRINCE2: A Pocket Guide, Second Edition

PRINCE2 is a highly successful project management method. For those who are sitting PRINCE2 exams, or embarking on their first project, there's a lot to learn and remember. How do you capture the fundamental principles, the essential themes, and bring them to mind when you need them?

Too much information?

We realise that you have all the books you need about the PRINCE2 system. You don't need another to give you all the same information, just in different words. However, sometimes you could do with a summary or checklist, so you can recall exactly what you need, precisely when you need it.

Stay focused and achieve your goals

This pocket guide is designed to do just that. Written by a former Chief Examiner for PRINCE2, it contains all you need to prompt your memory at the crucial time. It is laid out in a clear and comprehensible format with helpful diagrams and tables, and will enable you to:

• bring to mind the information you need, just when you need it
• keep the key principles at the forefront of your mind
• focus on what you are trying to achieve
• follow the correct processes, in the right order
• tailor the system to suit your needs and objectives
• manage a successful project from beginning to end
• add value to your business.

About the Author

Colin Bentley has been a project manager since 1966 and has managed many projects, large and small, in several countries. He has been working with PRINCE2, PRINCE and its predecessor, PROMPT II, since 1975. He was one of the team that brought PROMPT II to the marketplace, wrote the major part of the PRINCE2 manual and is the author of all revisions to the manual until the 2009 version.

He was the Chief Examiner for PRINCE2 from its beginning until 2008 and wrote all Foundation and Practitioner exam papers, and marked them until they reached the massive volumes that are sat today.

Now retired, he has had over twenty books published, has lectured widely on PRINCE2 and has acted as project management consultant to such firms as The London Stock Exchange, Microsoft Europe, Tesco Stores, Commercial Union and the BBC. He still writes books on the PRINCE2 method and has updated them all to reflect the 2009 version.