Best management practice manuals:

PRINCE2®, PRINCE2®Agile, AgilePM®, AgileShift®, MSP®, MoP®, P3O®, MoV®, M_o_R®, RESILIA™, ITIL®

“PRINCE2® – Managing Sucessful Projects” 6th edition (2017) manual

Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2®, 6th Edition

PRINCE2® (Projects In Controlled Environments) is a process-based method that provides the essentials for project management. PRINCE2® helps private, public, and third-sector organizations successfully deliver new products, services, and bring about transformational change.

It is a generic best practice tool that can be tailored to the needs of any organisation and can be used for the management of projects of any type and scale.

The Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2® 6th Edition guidance emphasises the scalability and flexibility of the method and on how to tailor it to the complexity and requirements of a project.

Publisher: PeopleCert
Author: Axelos
Language: English (UK)
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-9925-600-03-8

Agile PM® PDF manual

Since its introduction to the market, the Agile Project Management (AgilePM®) method from Agile Business Consortium has proven to be very popular and has enabled the adoption of Agile Project Management around the world.

This manual is based on The Agile Project Framework and is intended to support the accredited Agile Project Management (AgilePM®) Practitioner training, as well as to provide the definitive source for the AgilePM® Foundation and Practitioner exams.

In today’s ever-changing world, organizations and companies are eager to adopt a more flexible approach to project delivery and want to be more agile. However, for project and program organizations and where formal project management processes already exist, the informality of many agile approaches is daunting and sometimes perceived as too risky. These project-centric organizations need a mature agile approach – Agile within the concept of Agile Project Management.

PRINCE2® Agile manual

PRINCE2 Agile® is the world’s most complete project management solution, combining the flexibility and responsiveness of agile with the clearly defined framework of PRINCE2®. The best practice guidance shows how this compatibility can be exploited by organisations harnessing both PRINCE2 and agile, equipping them with the required skills and processes to successfully deliver projects to meet customer requirements in today’s fast paced and rapidly changing business environments:

• The combination of control and flexibility
• Clear project definitions
• Seamless integration
• Improved capability to react and adapt

The PRINCE2 Agile guide supports agile project direction, management, and delivery. It offers the most up-to-date view of agile project management methodologies, and is the only guidance covering concepts such as Scrum, Kanban, and Lean Startup.

Publisher: PeopleCert
Author: Axelos
Language: English (UK)
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-9925-600-02-1

Guide to AgileSHIFT®

AgileSHIFT® helps individuals and organizations successfully create a culture of enterprise-wide agility in order to drive transformational change. The AgileSHIFT publication explains why organizations need to transform and offers guidance on how to implement the shift towards enterprise agility. It helps organisations respond positively to increasing customer demands and expectations, competitor pressure and internal legacy processes.

AgileSHIFT® is designed to take a holistic view on organisations and to win over the hearts and minds of the entire organisation.

Publisher: PeopleCert
Author: Axelos
Language: English (UK)
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-9925-600-45-8

Management of Risk: Guidance for Practitioners, 3rd Edition

M_o_R® (Management of Risk) provides a framework for risk management considering the different aspects of an organisation: strategic, programme project and operational. It combines principles, approach and processes and offers advice on how they should be implemented, depending on the magnitude of the risk’s impact on objectives.

The M_o_R® 3rd edition guidance is ideal for any organisation or individual requiring guidance on a controlled approach to identification, assessment and control of risk at strategic, programme, project and operational perspectives. M_o_R Foundation is aimed at Business Change Managers, Programme and Project Managers, Risk Managers, Business, Programme and Project Support staff and managers, operational staff and managers. It is also relevant to staff and managers from other disciplines, particularly those responsible for establishing standards and/or integrating them with MoP®, MSP® and PRINCE2®.

Publisher: PeopleCert
Author: Axelos
Language: English (UK)
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-9925-600-39-7

M_o_R® 4: Management of Risk: Creating and Protecting Value

Management of Risk: Creating and Protecting Value offers a benefits and value-focused approach to risk management, giving practical guidance on effective risk management, applicable across all regions, industries and sectors.

The guidance shows how to develop and employ effective risk management approaches in a fast and changing competitive landscape, demonstrating how to integrate risk management across all levels of an organisation.

It provides practical guidance on key topics such as creating a positive risk culture to protect and create value, and how to integrate risk management with Agile ways of working.

Publisher: PeopleCert
Author: Axelos
Language: English (UK)
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-9925-600-55-7

RESILIA™ Cyber Resiliance Best Practice

RESILIA™ is a best practice framework, designed to help organisations and governments build, assess, deploy and manage good cyber resilience against security threats, such as cyber risks/attacks and cyber criminals.

RESILIA equips professionals with accurate understanding and knowledge, enabling them to clearly and confidently react and take appropriate action, in order to implement and manage sound cyber resilience throughout an organisational structure. It improves an organisation’s ability to detect, reduce, avoid and recover from cyber based threats and ultimately strengthens and aligns IT operations and enhances existing management strategies.

Publisher: PeopleCert
Author: Axelos
Language: English (UK)
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-9925-600-34-2

Managing Successful Programmes, 4th Edition

MSP® is specifically designed to address the most common challenges that organizations encounter when leading investments in change. It is designed to align programmes and projects to organizational strategy and to provide governance.

The MSP 4th edition guidance is suitable for Project Managers, Business Change Managers, experts and advisers working within a programme office, as well as for other specialist/governance roles involved in supporting programmes following the MSP guidance.

Publisher: PeopleCert
Author: Axelos
Language: English (UK)
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-9925-600-43-4

Managing Successful Programmes, 5th Edition

MSP is specifically designed to address the most common challenges that organizations encounter when leading investments in change. It is designed to align programmes and projects to organizational strategy and to provide governance.

MSP 5th edition consists of a set of principles, themes, and processes that provide a clear roadmap for the programme lifecycle and ensure successful organizational outcomes:

The 7 principles are the driving requirements that are continually required to achieve value from programme management. The 7 themes help organizations to identify key roles, responsibilities, and give very practical guidance illustrating how MSP can be used according to the reasons for a programme. The 7 processes provide a route through the lifecycle of a programme with an emphasis on the incremental nature of a programme enabling a cyclical progression towards the desired future state.

The MSP 5th edition guidance focuses on flexibility, adaptability, and responsiveness by adopting an incremental approach to the programme lifecycle and thus enabling organizational agility.

Publisher: PeopleCert
Author: Axelos
Language: English (UK)
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-9925-600-44-1

MoP® – The Management of Portfolios

The Management of Portfolios (MoP®) guidance has been developed to provide senior executives and decision-makers with an overview of portfolio management, the principles on which it is based, some of the techniques used, and how to get started and sustain progress.

MoP® guidance is suitable for professionals involved in a range of formal and informal portfolio management roles encompassing investment decision making, project and programme delivery, and benefits realisation. The guidance is also valuable to those involved in the selection and delivery of business change initiatives, including members of Management Boards and Directors of Change, SROs, Portfolio, Programme, Project, Business Change and Benefits managers, as well as business case writers and project appraisers.

Publisher: PeopleCert
Author: Axelos
Language: English (UK)
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-9925-600-36-6

P3O® (Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices) manual

P3O® (Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices) provides a universally applicable guidance that combines a set of principles, processes and techniques that facilitate effective portfolio, programme and project management through enablement, challenge and support structures.

The P3O® guidance – which is aligned to PRINCE2®, MSP®, and M_o_R® – brings together a set of principles, processes and techniques to facilitate effective portfolio, programme and project management through enablement, challenge and support structures.

Publisher: PeopleCert
Author: Axelos
Language: English (UK)
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-9925-600-37-3

MoV® (Management of Value)

MoV® (Management of Value) provides essential guidance on maximising value and making better use of resources.

The definition of value proposed by MoV embraces both monetary and non-monetary benefits, and argues that the subjectivity of value increases the need for it to be actively managed. MoV provides a method, which is supported by techniques, in order to allocate scarce funds as effectively as possible.

MoV has evolved from many years of successful value management practice and is relevant to portfolio programmes and projects. The guide is aimed at individuals who direct, manage, support and deliver portfolios programmes and projects.

Organisations and professionals rely on MoV, a successful, proven methodology, to in order increase the value they deliver and make better use of resources.

Publisher: PeopleCert
Author: Axelos
Language: English (UK)
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-9925-600-35-9

ITIL® Foundation: ITIL 4 Edition

The ITIL 4 Foundation guidance introduces an end-to-end operating model for the creation, delivery and continual improvement of technology-enabled products and services.
The guidance is for anyone who needs to understand the key concepts of IT and digital service delivery, and who is interested in helping their organization embrace the new service management culture. It is for professionals at the start of their ITIL 4 journey or people looking to update their existing ITIL knowledge.
The guidance will help you to understand:

how modern IT and digital service organizations operate
how value streams increase speed and efficiency
how cultural or behavioural principles guide work that benefits the wider organization
how to use commonly-used service management terms and concepts

Publisher: PeopleCert
Author: Axelos
Language: English (UK)
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-9925-600-00-7

ITIL® 4: Create, Deliver and Support

ITIL4 Managing Professional Create, Deliver & Support covers the ‘core’ service management activities and expands the current scope of ITIL to include the ‘creation’ of services. It focuses on the integration of different value streams and activities to create, deliver and support IT-enabled products and services whilst also covering supporting practices, methods and tools.

It provides IT practitioners with an understanding of service quality and improvement methods, enabling them to continue to deliver innovative yet reliable tech-enabled services to their customers in an increasingly competitive market.

ITIL 4 Create, Deliver and Support is aimed at individuals who are continuing their journey in service management, ITSM managers and ITSM practitioners managing the operation of IT-enabled and digital products and services, and those responsible for their end-to-end delivery.

Publisher: PeopleCert
Author: Axelos
Language: English (UK)
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-9925-600-19-9

ITIL® 4: Drive Stakeholder Value

ITIL4 Managing Professional Drive Stakeholder Value guidance covers all forms of engagement and interaction between service providers and their customers, users, suppliers and partners.

It empowers practitioners and organisations to deliver exceptional value by focusing on the conversion of demand into tangible benefits through IT-enabled services. By facilitating effective stakeholder management, digital professionals are better able to target stakeholders with the right service offerings and value propositions, distinguishing themselves and their organisations within a competitive and demanding environment.

The guidance touches further upon the customer journey, allowing candidates to shape customer demand, manage relationships and optimise the customer experience. It will also enable candidates to increase stakeholder satisfaction by co-creating value and developing mutually agreed requirements.

Publisher: PeopleCert
Author: Axelos
Language: English (UK)
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-9925-600-20-5