PRINCE2 Practitioner – The PRINCE2 Glossary
- The PRINCE2 Glossary
I like reading books, but I got tired of reading little kids books, and I wanted to start reading big people books. But when I started reading them, one of the first things I realized was that they had a lot of words I didn’t understand. So I guessed what they might mean, but I couldn’t make sense of parts of the book. So then I got into the habit of keeping a dictionary nearby, and each time I came across word that I didn’t understand, I would link it up in the dictionary. Guess what? The Prince Two Kind is a very big people book, because not only will you find lots of words that you don’t understand, but you will also find lots of words and phrases that you think you understand. The Prince Two has a different and special meaning for them, which may be different from the everyday meaning. So I recommend getting into the habit of looking up words and phrases in The Prince Two Glossary, which starts on page 370. And unlike the Oxford English Dictionary, which is over 170,000 words, the Prince Two Glossary has less than 200 words and phrases. Easy. Just in case you need a little convinced that you actually need to read the glossary, let’s have a look at it.
The very first word in the glossary is accept. Now, we all know that accept means that yeah, we use that every day. It means to receive a gift or something, doesn’t it? I just confirmed that in the glossary to make sure. Oh, the glossary says it means to take a risk, even though you know it could impact project objectives. Did you know that whether you did okay, how about the word backlog? No cheating. Now tell me what backlog means without looking it up. I don’t know. If you’re a Prince Two black belt, you probably didn’t know. It’s a list of new features for a product. Crazy, I know. But you need to realize that if you just go by what you think the Prince Two words mean without checking, you will misunderstand much of the Prince Two’s method. And in case you don’t know the word misunderstand means, it means you will fail the exam. It is vitally important in any industry for the key stakeholders to be speaking the same language. And as Einstein said, you need ten correct inputs to replace one incorrect one. So maybe if you read the glossary ten times, that will correct all the misunderstandings about Princeton.