PRINCE2™ Foundation

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Overview

3-day public or single organisation course

The aim of this 3-day training course is to provide delegates with a fundamental understanding of the PRINCE2™ project management method, and help delegates to prepare for the PRINCE2™ Foundation examination at the end of this course.

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

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
• Prepare project plans using product based planning techniques and undertake risk analysis and management for the project
• Prepare information for inclusion in a Project Initiation Document
• Understand techniques for the management of product development, quality control and change control
• Take the PRINCE2™ Foundation examination paper.

Who should attend?

This course would benefit all members in a project team (administrators, coordinators, managers), practising project managers and programme managers. Due to the generic nature of this course, it is also suitable for general managers, staff in a supporting role, and those who wish to gain formal recognition of their skills by taking the PRINCE2™ foundation examination.

Course Prerequisites

There is no formal requirement for attending this course, although it would be beneficial to the delegates to have some understanding of project management.

Delegates will be sent pre-course reading which must be completed prior to attending the course. The standard recommended reading time is 10 hours.

Professional Qualification

On day 3 of this training event the delegates will take the PRINCE2™ Foundation exam.

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Content

Sessions will include:

PRINCE2™

• Background & Objectives
• Benefits
• Scope
• Structure

Project organisation

• Organisational structure
• Roles and responsibilities
• The project board
• The project manager
• Team management.
• Project assurance
• Project support
• Supplier relationships

Planning

• Purpose and importance
• Components & types of plan
• Planning techniques
• Product based planning
• The steps in planning

Project control

• Work package authorisation
• Stage assessments
• Establishing project and stage tolerance
• Checkpoints & highlight reports
• Handling exception situations
• Project issues
• Project reporting

Risk management

• Types of business and project risk
• Risk analysis and management
• The risk log

Quality

• Ensuring quality
• Quality planning
• Product descriptions
• Quality control and quality review

Change Control and Configuration Management

• Change control steps
• Authority levels
• Analysing the impact
• Configuration management

Processes

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

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