PRINCE2™ for Practitioners

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Overview

5-day public or single organisation course

The aim of this 5-day course is to provide delegates with a complete and practical understanding of the PRINCE2™ project management method. This training will help prepare delegates for the PRINCE2™ examinations.

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.

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 and apply the PRINCE2™ processes
• 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 and apply techniques for the management of product development, quality control and change control
• Take the PRINCE2™ Foundation and Practitioner examination papers.

Who should attend?

This course is designed for practising project managers, project leaders and project coordinators and who wish to gain formal recognition of their skills by taking the PRINCE2™ examination.

Course Prerequisites

This is not a general project management course. Delegates should bring to the course some experience of managing projects. Typically twelve months is the minimum necessary experience.

Pre-course preparation material will be sent for completion prior to the start of the course.

Professional Qualification

On day 4 of this course the delegates will take the PRINCE2™ Foundation examination and, on day 5, the PRINCE2™ Practitioner examination.

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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

• Categories of 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

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

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