PRINCE2™ Overview

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Overview

1-day public or single organisation course

This one day course is designed to provide delegates with an appreciation of the main features and terms of PRINCE2™.

Delegates will be able to understand their role in a PRINCE2™ project and participate through PRINCE2™ processes and communications channels.

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

Objectives

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

• Understand how a formal method helps manage a project well
• Know what PRINCE2™ is and isn’t
• Be familiar with the main components of PRINCE2™
• Understand the Process Model

Who should attend?

This course is aimed at anyone involved in PRINCE2™ projects, looking to adopt the PRINCE2™ methodologies or about to embark upon the Foundation and Practitioner training required for Prince2 certification.

Course Prerequisites

None

Professional Qualification

None

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Content

Sessions will include:

PRINCE2™

• Background & Objectives
• Benefits
• Scope

Processes

• The Process Model
• Controlled Start, Progress & Close

Start Up

• Project Brief

Initiating a Project

• Project Initiation Document

Product-Based Planning

• Product Breakdown Structure
• Product Description
• Product Flow Diagram

Managing Product Delivery

• Work Packages
• Controlling a Stage

Organisation

• Small project organisations
• The BUS principle & the project board
• The project manager
• Team management
• Project assurance & project support

Stages

• Reasons for stages
• Stage tolerances

Managing Stage Boundaries

• Preparing for stage assessments

Plans & Planning

• Purpose and importance
• Components & types of plan
• The steps in planning

Controls

• Checkpoints & highlight reports
• Handling exception situations
• Project issues
• Project reporting

Closing a Project

• Customer Acceptance
• Lesson Learned

Risk Management

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

Quality

• Quality planning
• Quality control and quality review
• Change Control and Configuration

Management

• Authority levels
• Analysing the impact
• Configuration management

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