active.requirements logo

PrinceLite ©

Introducing 'PrinceLite'

PrinceLite is a framework for project delivery, not project management for its own sake. It may be called 'lite' but that is not meant to imply it is suitable only for small projects: it is suitable for any size project.

What does PrinceLite offer that is new?

Business change, project management and software engineering are considered together
Formalise the business and technical community
Factor in IT's political dimension
Ruthlessly focus on unambiguous business requirements representation
Define the minimum necessary to deliver
Formally define an unambiguous business requirement

PrinceLite is designed to provide the practitioner with guidance regarding which artifacts should be produced to best support successful project delivery. Where other frameworks are centred around process that informs artifact definition, PrinceLite is centred around the artifacts that are most important to stakeholders.

PrinceLite adopts concepts from Prince2, PMBOK, RUP, Agile, DSDM, in fact from everywhere. For instance the RUP project lifecycle model of inception, elaboration, construction and transition is used and combined with a business project lifecycle that runs concurrently. This business project lifecycle for projects in the pre-funded or pilot funded stages is introduced in stakeholders. PrinceLite is primarily concerned with delivering IT projects. Unambiguous business requirements are at the heart of the framework. To achieve unambiguous business requirements, the Unified Modelling Language is used extensively.

Given that PrinceLite is an 'agile' framework, the working premise is that fewer higher quality, and shorter artifacts are preferable to more 'high level', longer and more 'wordy' examples. Documents that are not read, or read and not understood, have no value. (If no one needs it, don't do it.) There is a core of required process and artifacts. For projects with a greater need for 'governance', this is accommodated as extra to the core artifact set.

 

Website by Accent Design Group