The Centre for Project Management Practice (part of Aston Business School which focuses on “promoting knowledge sharing by exposing project management practitioners and researchers to each other’s experiences, concerns and expertise” ) has published details about its latest debate.
“To PRINCE2 or not to PRINCE2″ is focused on the two opposing arguments that surround the OGC machine at the moment. In one corner will be the Lead Author for PRINCE 2009 the refresh and in the other the Director of the International Centre for Programme Management at Cranfield University. The debate is centred around, “This year sees the introduction by the OGC of the fourth version of PRINCE2 yet some academics decry the capabilities of formal “bodies of knowledge” and practitioners can see them as strangling their projects in bureaucracy”
The PRINCE 2009 is due to be launched on 16th June in London but this event gives everyone the chance to get involved with the debate. We’re especially interested in going along to this event but if you’re unable to make it we’ll be blogging about it afterwards. You can also get involved by placing your vote right now on the CPMP Big Ballot
I think whether Prince 2 encourages bureaucracy, or not, is a choice of the business management, not a general stipulation of Prince 2 itself. We use Prince 2 as a framework and an enabler – we make that choice – we could use it very rigorously and make it appear as bureaucracy if we chose too.
Using it as a framework does not suggest that practitioners are any less qualified or act with less integrity than their more stalwart peers.
Prince 2009 is an evolution. It’s up to you if it becomes a Bureaucratic Revolution.