Remembering the Components

When you start learning PRINCE2, remembering all its elements is not easy.
So i constantly try and find new ways to memorize items.

For a while i have been thinking about a sentence that would help us remember the 8 components of PRINCE2.

Let’s first line them up :
1. the Business Case
2. the Organisation
3. the Plans
4. the Controls
5. Quality (in a Project environment)
6. Risk (Management)
7. Configuration Management
8. Change Control

i simply remember them as B-O-P-C Q-R-CM-CC

But Carlo, one of my participants, started a nice sentence which i added a variation to and so got the following :

Big Open Projects Can Quickly Return Companies’ Management Crazy Cash.

so, there you have it, a strange sentence maybe, but something that might help some of you easily remember the 8 Components of PRINCE2.

keep in touch,

john higham

PRINCE2 in french

Soon there will be a french version of the manual.

Currently, we expect there will be a french manual available early February, but that can still change at this stage.
A couple of very good signs however is that an ISBN number has been allocated for the manual and that there is some intensive pre-production work going on.

I’ll keep you informed as i’m told of progress.

take care and keep in touch,

john higham

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