Overview:

This combined PRINCE2® Foundation and Practitioner course is designed to give candidates a comprehensive overview of the PRINCE2® methodology
This extensive course will enable candidates to apply and tailor the PRINCE® principles, themes, and processes, to enhance productivity and operational functioning of projects. Whilst delineating how to improve a project’s operational performance, this comprehensive course will ensure that a candidate can work within a PRINCE2® team fundamentally ameliorating project practices.
As the most popular project management methodology in the UK, PRINCE2® is a malleable and established process-driven methodology that appears ubiquitously across a variety of industries. Hence, this PRINCE2® Foundation and Practitioner course promotes an appreciation for project risk, contingency plans, business justifications, and of how to optimise individual project contributions - enhancing a candidate’s project management skill and qualification repertoire

This PRINCE2® foundation and practitioner training course covers the following topics:

Introduction to Projects and the PRINCE2® methodology:

• Define the characteristics of a project
• Six aspects of project performance
• Integrated elements of PRINCE2®
• Understand the key concepts relating to projects and PRINCE2®
• PRINCE2® Principles
• Initiating and Directing a Project Process

Business Case Theme:

• Explain the purpose
• Benefits management approach
• Minimum requirements to apply the business case theme
• Business justification and key concepts

Review of initiating and directing a Project Process
Review of evening work

Risk Theme:

• Risk management approach
• Purpose of a risk budget
• Key concepts related to risk

Quality Theme:

• Explain purpose
• Minimum requirements to apply the quality theme
• Quality planning and assurance, customer expectations and acceptance criteria

Organisation Theme:

• Purpose and the key management products
• Minimum requirements to apply the organisation theme
• Understand the roles and responsibilities of all of those involved in organisation theme

Plans Theme:

• Types of plans
• Recommended approach to planning and defining analysing products

Change Theme:

• Change control approach, issue register, issue report
• Types of issue
• Change control procedures

Review of evening work

Progress Theme:

• Daily log, lessons log, lessons report, work package etc.
• Controlling a stage
• Managing Product Delivery
• Managing a stage boundary
• Closing a project process

Apply PRINCE2® principles:

• Continued business justification
• Role and responsibilities
• Experience, Tailor the principles
• Focus on the product
• Assess effectiveness of applying the quality theme
• Demonstrate understanding of key management products
• Applying the PRINCE2® risk, change, and controlling themes

Carrying out the activities of:

• Initiating project process activities
• Directing project process activities
• Controlling stage process activities
• Managing product delivery process activities
• Managing stage boundary process activities
• Closing a project process activities