I have a little advice for the budding Project Managers out there to get you started right away!
One of the things I do is Project Management, I have been formerly trained in the PRINCE2 methodology but mostly find my self in organisations that use Process Based methodologies which loosely follow the PMP, at least at a high-level. More recently, we see an Agile methodology in use (to some degree).
When I started down this path, I didn’t really understand the differing methodologies at the time, but I did a little research and signed up for a PRINCE2 course. As it turns out, the PRINCE2 methodology, whilst customisable to suit any project size, is very typically ‘British’ in that it seems to have a lot of inherent bureaucracy, this in itself is not a huge issue, but as I found out later, trying to manage projects using PRINCE2 in a ‘non-PRINCE2-shop’ wasn’t terribly efficient.
I am not going to bash PRINCE2, I think it, like most things, has some real benefits and it did introduce me to the whole concept of methodologies, furthermore I still refer to my PRINCE2 book for occasional guidance, especially when trying to explain a methodology to someone else.
I have a little advice for the budding Project Managers out there to get you started right away:
Methodologies have their place, but again, common sense shows you how to do something
Clearly you can’t close a project before you have initiated a project You can’t paint a room without buying the paint.. Equally, You can’t install servers into your shiny new server room without first building a server room and buying those servers Formal methodologies are great for structure, but that structure doesn’t need to be 47 individual processes…
The following structure will work fine for most things: