The latest British Standard on project management is an informative standard and provides guidance on the key concepts and the activities needed to be undertaken in order to increase the likelihood of a project being successful.
informative standards provide recommendations, providing their readers with a concise summary of each topic covered they are written as ‘should’ statements. normative standards are prescriptive in terms of quality and techniques to be used they are written as ‘shall’ statements. there is a growing requirement for ‘accreditation’ to be proven in a supplier/contractor context.īritish Standards can be ‘normative’ or ‘informative’. training in the PRINCE2 method can be sourced easily. AXELOS provides methods for this which are compatible with PRINCE2 
PRINCE2 can be used for standalone projects as well as for those which are part of a programme or portfolio. PRINCE2’s scope covers all the roles and processes needed to direct, manage and undertake a project in its entirety. very little alternative ‘open copyright’ material is available for organizations to draw on most project management methods are proprietary to the organizations which created them. This lead has been followed by many other governments overseas expectations set by successive UK governments, which have an interest in seeing that project performance in both the public and private sectors improves to benefit the UK’s economy as a whole. The growth in the use of PRINCE2 is the result of a number of factors, including: An Executive Guide to PRINCE2 Agile: aimed at senior management, this guide shows how agile techniques and PRINCE2 can be combined in practice. 1.3.9 project reality how to#
PRINCE2 Agile: guidance on how to use PRINCE2 with agile techniques such as SCRUM, Kanban and Lean StartUp. PRINCE2 Handbook: a quick reference guide to the core text for use by practitioners. Directing Successful Projects with PRINCE2: this is aimed at sponsors of projects and senior managers: a handbook aimed at project board members to help them undertake their critical role in directing a project. 
This is supported by a number of additional texts, including: The core document for PRINCE2 is Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2. Since 1996, when it was first published, PRINCE2 has grown to become the de facto project management method, not just in the UK but in more than 150 countries worldwide. In this way, all users of standards benefit from the collective experience of all other users. Once established, standards can promote continuous improvement by being periodically reviewed and updated to ensure the latest consensus on best practice is included and any omissions or clarifications dealt with.
By standardising what project management is, people from different organizations are able to work together more easily and with fewer misunderstandings. This leads to fewer organizations missing activities which national (or international) consensus deems vital for project effectiveness. The content of the standard becomes a ‘checklist’ against which an organization can assess the completeness of its own approaches in terms of both principles and activities. Standards can improve the effectiveness of project management by drawing attention to the key principles to be applied and activities needed. By including techniques, a method is prescriptive about the way particular activities should be undertaken for that reason, methods tend to be far longer and more detailed. They can be derived directly from a standard, such as BS 6079:2019, or from a method like PRINCE2. Organizational approaches normally fit within the description of a ‘method’, as they are designed for practical use within the organization for which they are designed. a method is usually extensive and designed for use by practitioners. 
a standard is short it is designed to provide a succinct and commonly understood framework of practice, often used by those designing methods and by auditors as a reference framework. it also describes how to undertake the work. a method, such as PRINCE2, provides not only a set of activities to be done, together with roles, but also techniques for undertaking these activities i.e. a standard defines what needs to be done, and why, but not how activities are done. 
There is scope for confusion regarding the respective uses of standards and methods, and how they are applied in organizations. 1.2 STANDARDS AND METHODS SERVE DIFFERENT PURPOSES Principles and guidance for the management of projects. This white paper shows how PRINCE2 ® can be used to help organizations ensure their project management approach follows the recommendations given in British Standard BS 6079:2019 Project management.
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