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Comment on Can PRINCE2 be agile? by Elise

Elise — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:46:16 +0000

I am currently doing a comparison between Agile methods and PRINCE2 project management method.
I totally agree with last comment that said PRINCE2 creates too much of unnecessary documentation. Although control is good and to know what and when is happening, I can’t actually understand how any IT company could deliver planned software today with PRINCE2 method. Because needs and development happens so quickly companies and teams have to be ready to jump from one road to another and think open-mindedly not inside a box that PRINCE2 seems to be doing after project plan is made.

Comment on Can PRINCE2 be agile? by Ian

Ian — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:21:06 +0000

I am fascinating by how PRINCE2 has now started to become entrenched in the private sector. The methodology seems to create a mountain of unnecessary paperwork and as another commenter says provides cover for the incompetent and inefficient to hide behind.

Comment on Can PRINCE2 be agile? by Hammad Khan

Hammad Khan — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:41:00 +0000

DelphinusD - having working within large projects that have been ran on both Prince2 and Agile, as well as within the public and private sector, I couldn’t agree more with what you have said.

Prince2 has definately become a great way for those in the public sector to justify their jobs due to their place within an overly complicated framework that places too much emphasis on document creation, without any tangible way to measure effectiveness on an ongoing basis or value added by individuals. Its thanks to systems like this that so much within government is waste, yet there is very little that can be done to pinpoint the problem.

Comment on About by Jamie van Dyke

Jamie van Dyke — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:44:59 +0000

Hey Graham,

Where did you go? You still a Ruby man, or did you migrate to another language or profession?

Hope to speak to you soon!

Comment on Can PRINCE2 be agile? by DelphinusD

DelphinusD — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:03:25 +0000

Prince2 was created by the government, for the government. It is a common sense approach which has been made into a large, document-heavy and committee-heavy methodology. It is less about control and more about the illusion of control and competence - “I have a document which says how we control things!” and having traceability “I have another document which shows we did this step!”. This tracability serves mainly to remove individual accountability - by helping individuals hide behind decisions made by board and committee.

Who are these people who don’t want accountability? The ignorant ones? The incompetent ones? The competent ones? Yes - not surprisingly, Prince2 attracts many different types of people: (a) the ignorant - follow it to the letter because they think this alone will assure success; (b) the incompetent - ensuring self-preservation; (c) the rest of us - because that’s what more senior people believe will deliver the project using staff they have in (a) and (b) - and if it doesn’t work they are preserved also.

Back to Agile. As stated before, the elements of Prince2 are common sense - so incorporating Agile into it should be possible - if you can convince your governance bodies to accept not only different levels of tolerances but different types of items to track. In the same way testing is tracked by % across many different areas to check on progress until quality is ‘good enough’, so Agile development could be also. Worth some more thought I think.

Comment on Haml is neat but fussy by Nathaniel Bibler

Nathaniel Bibler — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:49:42 +0000

A better alternative to left justifying all of your code is to modify the tab setting in the bottom center of the TextMate window.

By default the setting reads, “Tab space: 2,” which has TextMate enter tab characters into your document, but only display each of them as to 2 spaces in the displayed document. If you check the “Soft spaces” option at the bottom of that list, it won’t insert those tabs and instead insert two actual space characters.

Changing that setting should fix error mentioned in the comment above.

Comment on Can PRINCE2 be agile? by Darjeelink - Alexis Perrier » Blog Archive » Combiner Agile et PRINCE2

Darjeelink - Alexis Perrier » Blog Archive » Combiner Agile et PRINCE2 — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:12:06 +0000

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Comment on Haml is neat but fussy by Chip

Chip — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:45:11 +0000

Thanks for your post! Although I was using TextMate instead of Vim, I was getting Haml errors such as this:

==================================
Illegal Indentation: Only two space characters are allowed as tabulation.

Extracted source (around line #):
==================================

It referenced the correct haml file, but I wasn’t sure what line needed to be fixed. As a workaround, I left-justified all lines and the error went away. This takes away from the beauty of Haml, as it makes the template more difficult to read. However, the error is solved, so I’m relieved.

Thanks again for the pointer!
Chip

Comment on Starting Rails by Jamie van Dyke

Jamie van Dyke — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:51:32 +0000

Hi Graham,

Great to see you hopping on the blog bandwagon, I hope the course gave you a good start into the Rails world. Don’t be afraid to pester me though, if you need help.

Cheers
– Jamie van Dyke