How to make the PRINCE2 course reading more interesting…
February 5, 2009 – 12:59 pmAs part of my job I’m taking the PRINCE2 Practitioners Training and certification course next week.
The prerequisite reading is a supposed 15-20 hours of the book “Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2”. So dry is the reading I was having real problems concentrating. Talking about this in the office I came up with the idea that to focus my attention and keep interested I’d mentally swap the word ‘project’ with ‘orgy’ to see if that made it more interesting. For a start the title becomes “Managing Successful Orgies with PRINCE2”
A rather dry section, Chapter 10, pg 153:
One of the defining features of a project is that it is finite – it has a start and an end. If the project loses this distinctiveness, it loses some of its advantages over purely operational management approaches.
A clear end to the project:
· It is always more successful than the natural tendency to drift into use and subsequent modification of the product. It is a recognition by all concerned that:
o The original objectives have been met
o the current project has run its course
o either the operational regime must now take over or the products from this project become inputs into some subsequent project or into some larger programme
Becomes:
One of the defining features of a[n] orgy is that it is finite – it has a start and an end. If the orgy loses this distinctiveness, it loses some of its advantages over purely operational management approaches.
A clear end to the orgy:
· It is always more successful than the natural tendency to drift into use and subsequent modification of the product. It is a recognition by all concerned that:
o The original objectives have been met
o the current orgy has run its course
o either the operational regime must now take over or the products from this orgy become inputs into some subsequent orgy or into some larger programme
Childish – yes but I just hope it helps me stay awake reading the thing.