The project to refresh PRINCE2 took nearly three years and involved more than 200 organisations through the sponsorship, consultation, authoring and reviewing. The reviews themselves generated over 7000 comments over 7 iterations. It is not surprising that the feedback on PRINCE2 2009 has been extremely positive. It should be, given the depth and breadth of experience of the vast numbers of people involved.

However, one of the challenges the authoring team faced was that a hard-copy book is not the best medium for writing a method. A method isn’t something that can be easily described in sequence from the first to the last page. A method involves a sophisticated relationship between the principles, processes, management products, themes and environmental factors that people (through their roles) need to apply.

Thankfully, the world has moved on from books and through media-wiki’s capability of being able to link pieces of information as a network of ideas (rather than just a sequence or hierarchy) we have been able to unleash the full value of PRINCE2.

Taking a wiki approach to describing PRINCE2, does not only make it more complete, it makes it easier to use too. We hope you agree!

Andy Murray
PRINCE2 Lead Author