Lesson 02: Principles, Part 1

In this lesson, we’ll discuss the overall concept of principles and what they mean in project management in general and in PRINCE2 in particular. Then, we’ll talk about 2 of the 7 principles, “ensure continued business justification” and “learn from experience”.

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The following are some of the extra topics mentioned in the lesson that may be interesting to you to learn, but they won’t be necessary for the exam:

So, we discussed 2 of the 7 PRINCE2 principles in this lesson. We’ll continue it in the next lesson by reviewing the “defined roles, responsibilities, and relationships” and “manage by exception” principles.

Have you ever run into serious problems in your projects, mainly because the roles and responsibilities were not clear?