PRINCE2 2009 briefing paper. Why has PRINCE2 been refreshed?
PRINCE2 is often cited as the world’s most widely used project management method. Its success is largely due to it being non-proprietary but also due to the ability of organisations to apply it to a variety of industries, environments and project sizes.
Since its launch in 1996, industry and society have not stood still. The emergence of agile and iterative approaches to project management and the EPSRC funded research (Rethinking Project Management) demonstrate there are challenges today that simply did not exist in 1996. Some aspects of traditional project management concepts do not serve such challenges. Therefore the remit for the refresh went beyond reviewing the log of issues raised on the manual but also to solicit wider feedback and requirements from the user community and other interested parties.
The refresh project started in November 2006 with a six month period of public consultation.