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Today I’ve got a heavy sun burn! The summer started and I lowered the price of the Ms Excel version of the project management health check from €9 to €0,00! YES YOU READ IT RIGHT ZERO EURO! And that for a Dutch guy. This is a time limited offer for 1 or 2 days!
The project management health check is used as the basis of the online version at: http://healthcheck-online.com. For daily use in my office I use the excel version. Together with the quality plan we decide which HealthCheck should be performed and when.
The questions are answered in an interview most of the times performed by project support. They report to project assurance. Project support is involved since they can check if the project documents are really there…
Answering the questions, the field change colour: Green for a Y and red for a N. I expect project managers to explain the No’s and Not Applicable’s in the rows under the HealthCheck.
The spreadsheet has been renewed and improved. Check the sample page to get an impression how the spreadsheet looks like. With this spreadsheet I have saved you many hours of creating an similar tool. My project managers are now aware that I want them to think how to perform their (and my) projects and that I want Prince2 and not P.I.N.O..
Click here to download Prince2 HealthCheck in xls format for only €9 FREE. The online version can be found here.
This best-seller is this spreadsheet I use within my projects to check for Prince2 compliancy. Together with the quality plan we decide which HealthCheck should be performed and when.
The questions are answered in an interview most of the times performed by project support. They report to project assurance. Project support is involved since they can check if the project documents are really there…
Answering the questions, the field change colour: Green for a Y and red for a N. I expect project managers to explain the No’s an Not Applicable in the rows under the HealthCheck.
The spreadsheet has been renewed and improved. Check the sample page to get an impression how the spreadsheet looks like. With this spreadsheet I have saved you many hours of creating an similar tool. My project managers are now aware that I want them to think how to perform their (and my) projects and that I want Prince2 and not P.I.N.O..
Click here to download Prince2 HealthCheck in xls format for only €9. The online version can be found here.
Prince2 healthcheck
Vandaag heb ik het boek “Handboek ITIL implementeren, de menselijke methode” toegevoegd aan de bibliotheek van The Prince2 Weblog. De reden dat ik dit boek heb toegevoegd aan de bibliotheek is toegankelijke schrijfwijze in dit boek. Ook geeft het boek op een heldere wijze weer hoe een ITIL implementatie doorgevoerd kan worden in organisaties.
Het boek is uniek, alleen al door de wijze waarop het tot stand is gekomen. Een veelvoud van auteurs heeft zich over het boek gebogen.
Kijk rustig op de website van Bol.com voor het inkijk exemplaar en zie hoe de klanten het boek beoordelen. Ik ben nieuwsgierig wat je van het boek vindt. Laat een reactie achter op deze site.
Reacties over dit boek:
Zeer interessant en bruikbaar boek over veranderingen in een grote organisatie. Zéér makkelijk leesbaar en toepasbaar. Herkenbare en complexe problematiek teruggebracht tot de kern, en handvatten biedend voor een mogelijke oplossingsrichting. Een aanrader voor een ieder die worstelt met het doorvoeren van wijzigingen, te maken heeft met collega’s die niet “mee” kunnen of willen veranderen, management dat zich niet verbonden voelt met dergelijke trajecten… Theorie wordt op een prettige manier afgewisseld met Praktijkjournaals en persoonlijke anekdotes en visies op gebeurtenissen, waardoor je je als lezer verbonden voelt met het team, de methodiek en het resultaat.
Beschrijving van het boek:
ITIL is de marktstandaard voor de inrichting van een ICT-Servicemanagement organisatie. Het is een set van modellen, concepten en processen die samen een krachtig referentiekader bieden voor het inrichten en verbeteren van ICT-processen in elke organisatie. Ondanks deze brede toepasbaarheid kent ITIL één groot probleem; het bevat zelf geen implementatiemethode. Veel ITIL-implementaties lopen dan ook vast in langdurige en kostbare projecten, waarin managers en medewerkers de greep op de doelen en resultaten kwijtraken.
Dit is het eerste handboek dat zich volledig richt op het implementeren van ITIL. De implementatie is gebaseerd op de I-CUBED-methode. Met I-CUBED worden stapsgewijs krachtige principes uit het vakgebied van verandermanagement toegepast bij het implementeren van ITIL. Hierdoor worden ITIL-procesmodellen daadwerkelijk tot uitvoering gebracht tot op het diepste organisatorische niveau; in de operationele teams. De I-CUBED-methode bestaat uit een drietal fases.
Allereerst wordt de meest effectieve implementatiestrategie gebouwd, gebaseerd op inzicht in een aantal fundamentele ITIL implementatiedilemma’s. Vervolgens wordt de inrichting van de aanpak bepaald die de uitvoering van de implementatie mogelijk maakt. Ten slotte wordt in acht stappen de uitvoering van de implementatie beschreven.
Naast de beschrijving van de methode laat dit handboek ook de kracht en effectiviteit van de methode zien in de praktijk. Daarvoor is een uitgebreide beschrijving opgenomen waarin dit handboek is toegepast in het hart van een toonaangevende ICT-dienstverlener: Getronics PinkRoccade. Aan elk hoofdstuk is een levendig praktijkjournaal toegevoegd, waarin de hoofdrolspelers zelf aan het woord komen. Dit geeft niet alleen een heldere vertaling van de methode naar de praktijk, maar vooral ook een beeld van het effect dat een implementatieproces op de mensen in de organisatie heeft. Zij zijn het immers die het veranderproces moeten vormgeven, uitvoeren, én tegelijkertijd de veranderingen moeten ondergaan. Dit maakt dit handboek tot een onmisbaar hulpmiddel voor iedereen die betrokken is bij ICT-Servicemanagement, of de implementatie en resultaten van ITIL in de eigen organisatie.
Het Handboek ITIL implementeren is geschreven door een schrijverscollectief waarin deskundigen met een ruime ervaring op het gebied van organisatieverandering, ITIL en ICT-Servicemanagement intensief hebben samengewerkt.
- René Verweijmeren (MCM) is zelfstandig organisatieadviseur gespecialiseerd in organisatieverandering.
- Marc Hendriks (Dr.) is als GZ-psycholoog werkzaam in de gezondheidszorg en is daarnaast universitair docent neuro- en revalidatiepsychologie aan de Radboud Universiteit van Nijmegen.
- Jeroen Jacobs (Ba. ICT) (ITIL v3 expert degree) is procesmanager en service management consultant bij Getronics.
- Luc Timmers, voormalig directeur en is momenteel zelfstandige. Luc vervult regelmatig intrim directie functies.
- Mathijs Valk is proces manager bij Getronics.
- Hans van Eldijk manager van een proces afdeling bij Getronics.
- Caspar Looijaard (Drs.) is zelfstandig organisatieadviseur en interim manager in met name de financiële sector.
The Prince2 Weblog has a growing number of visitors. This is great news!
The down side of this great news is that it attracts many spammers who intent to get attention for their businesses or products. Processing these messages consumes more of my time than wanted so I have to restrict the comment area. From now on: Only registered users can comment the articles on the Prince2 Weblog.
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Thanks for your interest in promoting your product/website or organisation on the Prince2 Weblog. In this article I’ll tell you how you can get into touch with a growing number of people interested in just one thing: Project Management!
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Promoting your business on the Prince2 Weblog can be one of the most efficient, risk free ways to jump start online attention for your business. Whether it is more traffic you want, more sales or just more publicity, promotion on this site can accomplish all this and more!
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If you have an project management product or organisation, you should consider using promoting it on the Prince2 Weblog to drive traffic to it. But what’s the Promotion deal actually? What ways does the Prince2 Weblog offer you for promoting your product or business? How can you market your business with us?
Promoting with us means:
- a preferred place in the weblogs Business Directory
- an advertorial promoting the product you want to focus on (can be placed on 3 weblogs) that remains on the frontpage (a.k.a. Article Marketing)
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It is efficient and effective
Promotion on the Prince2 Weblog is one of the most efficient ways to advertise your business online. Here are just some of the reasons:
- You can reach a very specific audience, interested in Prince2 and project management, for promoting your products.
- You can effectively sell your project management related product or service you have – however expensive or inexpensive it is.
- You are establishing your and your business’ credibility by exhibiting your knowledge on the subject on a well known project management site.
- Promotion on the Prince2 Weblog costs almost nothing, but can gets niche-based international promotion for your project management products.
Why the Prince2 Weblog? I use other Article Directories.
Several companies are already investing significantly in promoting their products on management sites by Article Marketing. There are lots of Article Directories on the Internet with millions of articles on them promoting businesses. Your project management article would be unrecognisable in there. With the Prince2 Weblog you get very specific and interested attention. It is an undeniable fact that Article Marketing on the Prince2 Weblog is the way to go.
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On articlebase.com I have publish an article about the value of publishing project management articles on the internet. The article is an open invitation for contractors who want to contribute on the Prince2 Weblog. Contact me if you have a strong opinion about Prince2 or if you have interesting thoughts, templates or best practises to share. Read the article why this is interesting.
How Project Management Articles Help to Promote Yourself??
Author: R.W. Bladder
How do project management publications help you promoting yourself??
On internet you can find several sites where you can post articles about topics of your interest. You can use it as marketing for your product, but also as a showcase for your knowledge.
Did you know that publishing articles can add value to you as a contractor?
Want to know what are the factors that make publishing worthwhile?
Let me tell you my story and the reactions I had on this topic.
In order to share my experience in the areas of project management, service management and programme management I started three weblogs: the Prince2 Weblog, the ITIL Weblog and the MSP Weblog. When I started it my main purpose was to share my best practises and templates that I created. I found out that by sharing my experience I not only helped out other people, but it also created some nice side effects:
- my social network has extended with managers all over the world that I otherwise would never had met;
- the reaction on my articles led to better understanding of some of the aspects.
The extended network can help you too! Publishing your articles about project management, service managent or programme management on one of the weblogs do not only bring your knowledge under the attention of the growing group of visitors. By putting your information and link to your weblog/profile you also bring yourself under the attention of the interested reader.
Here you can see some of the reactions on my question if publishing project management articles help to promote yourself:
Matt:
“This is a very interesting discussion. I believe that publishing articles does help you promote yourself – as long as you are more than just certain that the articles demonstrate that you have some knowledge in an area.”
Matt continues “I say ‘more than just certain’ because I believe the most critical success factor (CSF) is that you have to somehow know that there is an audience who will be interested and want to seek you out for your knowledge following on from the publication. It will also matter WHERE you publish the article – as in what medium that the publication uses to broadcast to its readership and whether the audience you specifically want for your facilitating awareness or interest in your knowledge uses it. ”
Matt has raised an interesting discussion. It is not only the article that matters, it is also the place where you publish it that matters. Think of it yourself, where would a project managent article be better read, on an general article site or on a ‘niche’ project management site where you can meet project management oriented people?
Matt made me look at the statistics of the Prince2 Weblog and this was my conclusion:
“Hi Matt, as always with a very profound and very good response. Looking at the statistics of my weblogs I notice that you are right.
About 50% of the people visiting are interested in knowledge about programme management, project management or service management in general. But the posts that get the most hits are specific themes, like: product breakdown structure or product flow diagram (both two Visio templates). (Besides the links to sample exams….) ”
In the same reaction I also added that writing about one specific subject per article helps to show your expertise. For example:
“If I talk about ITIL I always start with the Product Catalogue (I know, I should start talking about Service Catalogues now….) and embedding the delivery of products and services in the change management process. ”
” With Prince2 I like the product decomposition stuff and Management of Risk.”
” With MSP I like to start talking about the business objectives and the ambition of a company.”
So what are factors that make publishing valuable?
1. First of all publish only articles about topics that you have knowledge of. A good article generates interest in you as the author, but a ‘quick and dirty’ article can generate negative publicity.
2. Put structure in your article. Remember the classes you’ve had about writing reports at highschool. A structured article is much better to read!
3. Publish your article on websites like articlesbase.com but don’t forget to put it also on niche websites like the Prince2 weblogs.
4. Don’t forget the end your article with your credentials. Of course: don’t forget to link to your weblog or profile on Facebook/LinkedIn.
About the Author:
René Bladder is an innovator with a strong focus on (business) processes.He has more than 15 years of IT experience as a systems designer, project manager, service manager and programme manager. His drive is to successfully implement a process approach in organisations in order to improve the efficiency and quality.
His weblogs can be found at:
- http://prince2.healthcheck-online.com
- http://itil.healthcheck-online.com
- http://msp.healthcheck-online.com
René has also automated the project management health check, check: http://www.healthcheck-online.com.
Article Source: ArticlesBase.com – How Project Management Articles Help to Promote Yourself??
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In one of the groups of LinkedIn I am following a discussion about certification. The question asked by Paul is:
“If certifications such as PMI’s PMP or OGC/APM’s PRINCE2 are REQUIRED as a precondition to getting a job interview, isn’t this a defacto license? And does this represent a restraint of free trade? If yes, what can or should be done about it? If no, why do you think this is a good thing? “
The question can be divided in several parts on which you can agree or disagree. Lets have a look:
- When asked for Prince2 certified project managers it does not always mean that it is REQUIRED. Applying for the job you can stress the experience you have and let the company decide if it meets the requirements. It can be that you’re a specialist on just the topic the need.
- If Prince2 is REQUIRED but you don’t have the certificate, it can also be part of the negotiation. If you have the drive and the right elevator pitch, it can make the difference.
- The restraint of free trade part is not applicable. Perhaps for this one company, but not for the market as a whole.
- Requiring certification can mean two things: the company has no clue what it is asking and just sticks to the defacto standard and hopes that they so meet their requirements or the company knows what it is talking about and requires the Prince2 certificate so everybody speaks the same language.
Overlooking the question and the answer I must say that I normally use the job description as a ‘soll’ situation. The ideal situation. It is up to the applicant or account manager to understand what I’m looking for and to convince me.
The Prince2 certificate is then nice to have, but the right skills and experience is more a necessity then the certification. What do you think?
The ITIL Weblog is about IT service management. It is a resource for IT consultants and people preparing for the ITIL foundation exams.
Today the ITIL Weblog has started with a new service: Free Online ITIL Foundation Sample Exams. Now you can see how much progress you’ve got for the ITIL foundation exam. The first exam published contains 40 questions. After answering the questions, you’ll see the results and a brief explanation.
The Prince2 Weblog will soon have sample Prince2 foundation exams available in the same way. For the service management guys among you: have a try and post the results in a comment.
Good luck.
