Subject: Use of PRINCE2 Project Management Methodology as USCIS EA Implementation
Management Approach
Author: Roy Roebuck (BRMI Consulting), Lead EA for USCIS under the PMC ITPS Contract.
“Project In Controlled Environments, Version 2” (PRINCE2) is a mature project management
methodology set as a standard by the government of the United Kingdom. It is an operationally-oriented
subset of the highly respected and broader Project Management Institute (PMI) Book of Knowledge
(PMBOK). It is also compliant with the externally-assessed project management maturity guide found in
the PMBOK Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3).
As illustrated Spiral 1 of the BRMI Enterprise Management Improvement Flow Model shown in Figure 1,
BRMI offers to use: the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) technique to identify the mission drivers and
performance measures/indicators for USCIS EA; and to use the PRINCE2 project management method in
implementing the USCIS EA Implementation effort, along with the Earned Value Management (EVM)
technique for EA Implementation cost/schedule/deliverable management.
1. Enterprise Operations Spiral
4. Assessments and Decisions
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Mission/Vision
Strength, Weakness,
Goals 2/3 Enterprise
Opportunity, and Balanced Performance Objectives Intelligence
Performance Targets/Indicators
Threat (SWOT) Scorecard
Assessment and (BSC)
Develop Strategies Spiral
Recurring Operations
Risk Assessment ---
ITIL Recurring Service ---
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Management and Service
Initiatives (Projects)
Delivery (ITSM/SD) --- Earned Value
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Management Intelligence
PRINCE2 Project ---
Management Implement Strategies Inventory of (2)
Methodology Perform Projects
--- Operational
--- and (3)
Value Chain ---
Assessment (Products, Measure Project Performance Analytical (Data
Customers, Suppliers, Review Strategy Performance
Partners, Authorities, Adjust Performance
and Semantic)
Public, Internal --- Content
Analysis)
3. Dynamic Applications, Decision Simulation, and Mission-Based Asset
Distribution, Responsibility, and Access Provisioning
3. Enterprise Architecture (EA) Repository
(Context/Intelligence Structure, Enterprise Dynamic Knowledge-Base)
SUBJECT Location Organization Organization Function Process Resource Requirement
Data Data Unit Data (Mission) Data Data Data Data
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Figure 1. BRMI - Four EMI Spirals: 1) Implementing EA using EMI, BSC, PRINCE2, and EVM;
2) Sustaining Enterprise Operations and EA Using EA, BSC, and ITIL/SM/SD; 3) Implementing IT
Migration Program/Project Using EA, BSC, PRINCE2, and EVM; and 4) Sustaining IT
Capabilities Using EA, BSC, and ITIL/SM/SD.
BRMI then offers to use the above maturely and measurably implemented USCIS EA and its
management repository to support Figure 1’s Spiral 2 (Sustainable Operational EA For Enterprise
Operations), Spiral 3 (IT Migration IV&V, and C&A Support), and Spiral 4 (IT Capability Operations
and Sustainment) endeavors.