Government guidance in practice: How PRINCE2® best practices support effective project delivery

Our webinar with Prof. Ian Clarkson ChPP FAPM, Senior Director PRINCE2, PeopleCert, and Mike Saville, Head of Consulting at ILX, is available to watch on demand.

Hear from Ian and Mike as they explore how PRINCE2 best practices can complement UK government guidance and help project professionals put its principles into practice. 

Whether you work within the public sector or support government projects as part of the wider supply chain, the session offers practical perspectives you can apply to your own delivery environment.

Key takeaways 

Watch back to hear Ian and Mike discuss how government guidance and PRINCE2 best practices can work together and how established frameworks can support effective project delivery.

You’ll also gain a clearer understanding of:

• how government guidance and PRINCE2 work together – connecting the expectations set out in government standards with practical methods, techniques and roles
• why tailoring matters – adapting project, programme, portfolio or agile approaches to suit your delivery environment
• how to maintain focus on benefits – connecting strategic objectives, outputs and outcomes with the benefits and social value an initiative is intended to deliver
• how portfolio management can support decision-making – prioritising initiatives while considering strategic value, risk, resources and organisational capacity
• why effective governance needs clear accountability – including the role of sponsors and SROs in supporting delivery and benefits realisation
• how P3M3 can support continuous improvement – helping organisations understand and develop their project delivery capability.

Bridging the gap between guidance and delivery

UK government guidance, including the Green, Orange, Magenta and Teal Books and Government Functional Standard GovS 002: Project Delivery, helps set expectations for effective project delivery. PRINCE2 can complement this guidance by providing practical methods, techniques and defined roles that support how those expectations are put into practice.

Ian and Mike also discussed why there is no single approach for every initiative and how tailoring can help you choose the right practices for your project, programme or portfolio and the importance of keeping sight of why an initiative exists.

By connecting project outputs with intended outcomes, benefits and strategic objectives, teams can maintain focus on the value they are seeking to create.
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