PRINCE2™ Foundation to Practitioner Upgrade

Overview

2-day public or single organisation course

PRINCE2™ has established itself as the premier approach to managing projects. PRINCE2™ is generic – capable of being applied to any kind of project – scaleable and business-driven. Organisations that have adopted the PRINCE2™ have claimed that they have been able to achieve greater customer satisfaction during and at the end of projects, to reduce costs and to realise greater benefit from project deliverables.

The Registered PRINCE2™ Practitioner qualification is now established as an external competence measure by organisations in the UK, the Netherlands, Australia and elsewhere.

PRINCE2™ is a Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce

Objectives

At the end of the course, delegates will be able to:

Understand the need for project management and how PRINCE2™ meets that requirement
Understand the PRINCE2™ process model and apply the PRINCE2™ processes
Design a robust and appropriate project organisation
Apply appropriate controls at different levels and at different points in the life cycle of a project
Take the PRINCE2™ Practitioner examination paper.

Who should attend?

The aim of this course is to prepare people who have already passed their PRINCE2™ Foundation exam to move to the ’next level’ – the PRINCE2™ Practitioner examination.

Course Prerequisites

All delegates should have passed the PRINCE2™ Foundation examination.

Professional Qualification

The course follows the standard syllabus issued by the PRINCE Examinations Board, which focuses on the PRINCE2™ framework and how this might be applied pragmatically to real projects.

Content

Sessions will include:

PRINCE2™

Background & Objectives
Foundation and Practitioner – the differences
Review of current knowledge

Project organisation

Organisational structure
Roles and responsibilities
The project board
The project manager
Team management
Project assurance
Project support

Planning

Purpose and importance
Components & types of plan
Planning techniques – the focus on products

Project control

Stage assessments
Establishing project and stage tolerance
Checkpoints & highlight reports
Handling exception situations
Project reporting

Quality

Ensuring quality
Quality planning
The Quality Path

Configuration Management

Five features of CM
Configuration Librarian
CM Library

Processes

Starting up and initiating a project
Directing a project
Managing stage boundaries
Controlling a stage
Managing product delivery
Closing a project

PRINCE2™ in practice

Tailoring PRINCE2™ for different business environments
Scaling PRINCE2™ for use with projects of different type and/or size
Implementing PRINCE2™
Project documentation and filing

Exam Tips and Techniques

Answering styles
Coping with Case Studies