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This need for greater understanding is the driving force behind the publication of a new AXELOS guide - “ Directing successful projects with PRINCE2 ®: The essential guide for project board members.”ĭeveloped through extensive consultation with those familiar with the challenges of the project board and based on real-life experiences, the book provides a valuable reference source which can be used at any point in a project’s lifecycle.
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Get it wrong, ignore the importance of your role or misjudge what the project team requires from you and you risk creating problems and even project failure further down the line. Why does this matter? Because effective senior management involvement is one of the key contributory factors to a project’s success. They also need to recognize the crucial differences in the disciplines involved with this aspect of senior management, compared to their other business responsibilities. Within this context, it is vital that members of the project board not only understand their accountability for driving projects but have the skills to do so successfully. This remains true no matter what the size, scale or scope of the project in question. As such, they not only need managers to get things done, but also a clear sense of direction. But what they all have in common is being dynamic environments which bring change and uncertainty. Of course, not all projects have such powerful outcomes. According to an often-quoted story, when JFK asked a cleaner at the NASA space center what he was doing he responded: “Mr President, I’m helping put a man on the moon!” A perfect example of complete team engagement in the project goal. In predicting that man would land on the moon by the end of the decade, US President John F Kennedy became the ultimate project sponsor.