“PRINCE2 didn’t work for us, so we went back to Scrum”
“We really tried”
The present — Abandoning ‘PRINCE2’
“It was a good experiment”, said Fred.”Now we know that PRINCE2 is nothing for us. We are in a REAL business and we want to build our products fast. I always knew it, but I’m happy to see it confirmed.”
Carla laughed and said “Indeed. We know that we shouldn’t jump on every bandwagon. But with such a push from the Project Management Office we had no choice but to let it happen to see it fail.”
“Well, we didn’t let it fail. It simply didn’t fit our organisation.”
“Yes indeed. But it’s good that we tried. I guess that working with Scrum isn’t as bad as we felt it was. We just need additional training.”
Did they really try to implement PRINCE2 in a genuine way? To assess that, let’s go 18 months back in time.
18 months back — The transition to PRINCE2
Sarah was happy to get a refresher training on PRINCE2. The company would embrace this project management methodology. And now the newly appointed Project Managers — the former Scrum Masters — would get a 2 day training.
As a Scrum Master, Sarah saw how this Scrum framework was totally misunderstood and therefore totally misapplied. While she…
