PRINCE2 Agile

PRINCE2 is an awesome Framework but this book is a miserable presentation of agile. I feel like the authors took everything agile that they could find and just dumped it into the book. The reliance on process models is very confusing. Why have the authors of this and the 2009 version not used Process Flow Diagrams. In their absence I constantly have to flip all over the book trying to understand PRINCE2 Agile. The bindings on my 2009 version book and this book are falling apart from the flipping. A flow diagram is a chronological description of a process. That is intuitive. Someone new to PRINCE2 would have a hard time using PRINCE2 based on the process model. What you have offered is just the opposite. As a reference for a current PRINCE2 practitioner or professional it might be OK. Maybe the second edition will be an improvement.

Can't tell you if it was good, it arrived in a language other than English

Great for the PRINCE2 agile qualification prep. It’s really expensive but worth it. Some people rent a pdf which you can now access in exam but honestly with the number of hours you’ll spend with a book, you better get it. Outside of the exam it’s hard to use, you are better off with a project management for newbies guide. I really recommend taking an instructor led course for this or it as they explain how to use the book especially on the exam. Took me some time until I found my way around the book easily. The quality of the book is amazing, it’s nice and glossy and covers a lot of material. I can see that some people criticise the approach but you need to remember that this is best practice, not necessarily real life application. For me it was perfect as this is pretty much how to apply PRINCE2 which is high level and agile which is more granular. This is also how to be more agile as an organisation in general and good pm principles. I’ve already applied some ideas at work and everyone is very impressed:) Of course if you want to learn more about Agile, this is not a comprehensive guide, but still a good one. The only thing I can say is that it’s a lot more agile than PRINCE2, sometimes I wished I could just read about PRINCE2 but apparently it’s applied differently everywhere anyways so you’ll have to relearn it.

Nice reference

Having paid for a self-learning course, I was a little frustrated with the service provider. I was able to pretty much read this entire book twice, once for my foundation, and once again for my practitioner exam passing with high marks first time for both.

I used it for PRINCE2 Agile Foundation and Practitioner certification exams. It is a manual and is therefore excellent for referencing while preparing for the exams. It also a great tool to own post certification when you need to actually practice the PRINCE2 Agile in the real world.