Talk:PRINCE2: Initiating a project

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This page adds useful extra information, most of which appears to be factually correct and matches Prince2 guidelines in the area of Initiation. I think that to merge this into the main Prince2 page would make the main page excessively long and would also eliminate the possibility of re-using this as a reference in other areas that make use of Project Initiation 'prince style' such as ITIL Deployment. Mark G 13:25, 25 April 2006 (UTC)


    • I have reviewed Wikipedia:What wikipedia is not, which specifically states that there is no limit as to the number of pages and only limits based on reasonable access to the level of detail that might be represented. While there is no mention of avoiding 'how-to' guides that I could find - I do agree that in general such things would be undesirable. Clearly however - any article that describes a process is going to present something that could be misconstrued as a series of instructions rather than an explanation of a process (that if followed) might be prescriptive as to how-to perform it. Mark G 01:09, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
  • There is a factual error in one of the figures, a Product Breakdown Structure of Controlling a Stage (if one can speak of such) would consist of a Quality Log, Issue Log and Lessons Learned Log --but this would be an incomplete list anyway--. However, a Lessons Learned Report is a deliverable of Closing a Project (CP, CP3 to be exact), so it cannot ever be part of the PBS of CS.
  • I think that the move to wikibooks would mitigate this problem, though there is a question of copyright - although the creators of PRINCE2 have a similar widespread-usuability model to Wikipedia, I'm not sure it is complementary to the GFDL. The content is certainly too detailed to be merged into the main article. --Firien § 11:35, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I am redirecting this article to PRINCE2. If anyone is interested, please go ahead and find content to put in PRINCE2 or transwiki to WikiBooks. —Quarl (talk) 2007-02-26 03:15Z