The first difference to notice is that PRINCE2 is clearly project life cycle based with six out of eight major processes running from "Starting up a project" to "Closing a project". The remaining two, "Planning" and "Directing a project" are continuous processes supporting the other six. Each of these have their respective sub-process totaling 45 in all. Then, feeding into the system, are six "Components" some of which are documents and others that are themselves processes. Finally, PRINCE2 describes three techniques namely: "Product Based Planning", "Quality Review" and "Change Control". 2 The whole document is presented as an easy-to-follow narrative, bulleted checklists, process diagrams and timely "Hints and.
