PRINCE2 Agile Paperback – 12 Jun. 2015

Great for the PRINCE2 agile qualification prep. It’s really expensive but worth it. Some people rent a pdf which you can now access in exam but honestly with the number of hours you’ll spend with a book, you better get it. Outside of the exam it’s hard to use, you are better off with a project management for newbies guide. I really recommend taking an instructor led course for this or it as they explain how to use the book especially on the exam. Took me some time until I found my way around the book easily. The quality of the book is amazing, it’s nice and glossy and covers a lot of material. I can see that some people criticise the approach but you need to remember that this is best practice, not necessarily real life application. For me it was perfect as this is pretty much how to apply PRINCE2 which is high level and agile which is more granular. This is also how to be more agile as an organisation in general and good pm principles. I’ve already applied some ideas at work and everyone is very impressed:) Of course if you want to learn more about Agile, this is not a comprehensive guide, but still a good one. The only thing I can say is that it’s a lot more agile than PRINCE2, sometimes I wished I could just read about PRINCE2 but apparently it’s applied differently everywhere anyways so you’ll have to relearn it.

Having paid for a self-learning course, I was a little frustrated with the service provider.I was able to pretty much read this entire book twice, once for my foundation, and once again for my practitioner exam passing with high marks first time for both.

I used it for PRINCE2 Agile Foundation and Practitioner certification exams. It is a manual and is therefore excellent for referencing while preparing for the exams. It also a great tool to own post certification when you need to actually practice the PRINCE2 Agile in the real world.

Really good book with lots of really good information and tips. It isn't cheap though

A must for project / programme managers who need to tailor and flex their approach to project management to meet the needs of an ever changing environment.

Background: I took the course and bought this book because of PRINCE2's brand reputation but did the agile version because of the work environments I tended to float in.Pros:+ the book is well presented, good visuals and easy readability+ the course covers the basics of Agile well for the uninitiatedCons- If you removed the content trying to downplay the usefulness of Agile, and the self justification of PRINCE2 still existing, half the book would be gone. It truely is a bizarrely pitched book, it comes across as Axelos reluctantly accepting that their original system has largely become outdated, and creating a book in the new popular system but only so that they can slag it off.- Actually quite a light touch on real Agile methodology and useable practices.- The information presented was already dated by the time it was in print. E.g. "visualisations are always physical like a whiteboard, avoiding using technology where possible". Ignoring the vast array of software that 99% of PMs and devs use like Asana, Jira, Trello, and Basecamp just to name a few.My strong recommendation would be to try a different system which had better intentions

Absolute must for the practitioner exam. Do not take the exam without this (it's open book)

Very helpful for Prince2 Agile exam, top quality book and very good explanation

Das Buch enthält sehr viel Information die strukturiert aufgebaut ist. Sehr empfehlenswert

Can't tell you if it was good, it arrived in a language other than English

PRINCE2 is an awesome Framework but this book is a miserable presentation of agile. I feel like the authors took everything agile that they could find and just dumped it into the book. The reliance on process models is very confusing. Why have the authors of this and the 2009 version not used Process Flow Diagrams. In their absence I constantly have to flip all over the book trying to understand PRINCE2 Agile. The bindings on my 2009 version book and this book are falling apart from the flipping. A flow diagram is a chronological description of a process. That is intuitive. Someone new to PRINCE2 would have a hard time using PRINCE2 based on the process model. What you have offered is just the opposite. As a reference for a current PRINCE2 practitioner or professional it might be OK. Maybe the second edition will be an improvement.

Nice reference

PRINCE2 wird gerne als "bürokratisch" bezeichnet. Ich finde, im Zusammenspiel mit agilen Methoden werden die Stärken erst so richtig klar. Das Ergebnis von PRINCE2 Agile ist das Beste aus beiden Welten. Das Buch PRINCE2 Agile gibt dabei auch einen guten Einblick in die agilen Methoden, nicht bis in die letzten Tiefen, dafür aber mit ziemlich breitem Horizont. Während das "normale" PRINCE2 im Prinzip schon alles hat, wird in PRINCE2 Agile eine konkrete Anleitung gegeben, wie es sich das mit der agilen Welt verheiraten lässt. Wer sich mit der agilen Welt noch nicht so richtig auskennt findet hierzu nützliche Informationen, umgekehrt wird der agilen Welt aufgezeigt, wie sich mit PRINCE2 die eigenen Schwächen kompensieren lassen. Die im Buch enthaltenen Informationen reichen auf jeden Fall zu mehr als "zum Überleben", und ich habe eine Menge Anregungen gefunden für Richtungen und Tools, die mir die Arbeit erleichtern.