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Founder of Antes Information Systems. Owner of Codifypedia, ProjectKnowmad, MethodPlace, CrownKnowledge, SurveyEffort, and PostRadioCast. Author of a trilogy on management literature: Projects with Learning Outcomes, HybridP3M: Hybrid Project Management and Agile Mindset, and PMO Blueprints.

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Integrating PRINCE2 with Extreme Programming (XP) – An oxymoron or feasible practice?
Author(s): lukasz
Views: 950

Agile software development methods are a known as a paradigm shift from the traditional waterfall model towards iterative development. But there is one major misconception about agile methods, namely that they compete with “Old-time Project Management” (Milliken, 2014), or more precisely, the traditional Stage-gate model. This mistake results from a lack of understanding of the scope of...

HybridP3M QRC Author(s): lukasz Views: 979
Proposition 1: HybridP3M = Traditional Management + Agile Delivery. .Assumption: Project Management and Product Delivery Management are two different levels of management.. Definition of Traditional Management: Traditional Mgmt is defined by functional processes. The main goal of functional... Read more

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Old School PRINCE2 Planning process Author(s): lukasz Views: 928
Planning and the evolution of PRINCE2. Planning was one of 8 main processes in the 2005 version of PRINCE2. In the latest update (version 2009), planning disappeared as a process and was instead incorporated in the Plans theme. Themes are a new construct of PRINCE2 2009 as a replacement of the older Components from the original method. Also related to planning, the technique of... Read more

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PRINCE2 Change control technique Author(s): lukasz Views: 975
PRINCE2 Change control technique. The PRINCE2 Change Control technique described in the 2005 version of PRINCE2 was adopted and adapted as a Issue and Change Control procedure in the 2009 guidance. The notion of a technique disappeared and the procedure was incorporated in the Change theme. The biggest change is arguably that the old technique was directly linked to PRINCE2... Read more

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Commercial customer/supplier environment: case of a large engineering organization Author(s): lukasz Views: 815
Abstract:. Tailoring PRINCE2 for individual projects is mainly the outcome of Initiating a Project. During Initiation, the first project Stage, the project management approach is consolidated and described in the Project Initiation Document. In a commercial context like the civil engineering industry there are two possible scenarios related to this process. Either the customer... Read more

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Sections from ProwLO book proposal - useful example #2 Author(s): lukasz Views: 352
1. Blurb and core message. .In the knowledge economy, in which knowledge is the most important production factor, organizations are challenged to manage knowledge effectively in order to sustain competitive advantage.[1]. In... Read more

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Project Knowledge Management
Lifecycle Management
ProwLO
Projects with Learning Outcomes
PRINCE2
Knowledge Management for Project Excellence

Sections from PRIME (former name of HybridP3M) book proposal - useful example #1 Author(s): lukasz Views: 284
1. Blurb and core message. In the domain of project management methodologies there are two main camps: traditionalists and 'agilists', based on the divide between traditional and agile approaches. A potentially new trend is to combine the best of both, a hybrid methodology. There is a market gap here, a real opportunity. This gap is amplified by the confusion inherent to the... Read more

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Book proposal
Hybrid Management
Hybrid
HybridP3M

PRINCE2 in practice: analysis of PRINCE2 (implementation and operation) Case Studies
Author(s): lukasz
Views: 297

In order to gain a better understanding of PRINCE2 in practice a total of 13 Case Studies were examined, of which 7 are related to the original PRINCE2 method (pre- 2009 version) and 5 related to the latest guidance. For a complete list of the case studies see the References section.The general business case for implementing PRINCE2 was the need for a structured approach to project management in order...

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Unpublished HybridP3M Foreword Author(s): lukasz Views: 287
Foreword. .Project Management will never be free from Ambiguity. The meaning of many project management concepts is open to different interpretations. There is much debate and a lack of consensus. But it does not matter, as the best managers are known for their ability to deal with ambiguity (source unknown). Ultimately, everyone one can make mistakes,... Read more

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HybridP3M

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