PRINCE2® Foundation and Practitioner

Introduction:

This PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner course is designed to give participants a comprehensive overview of the PRINCE2® methodology

This 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.

Targeted Groups:

• Project Professionals
• Project Managers
• Project Management Office (PMO) Staff
• Project Team Members
• Persons who want to extend their skills

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course the participants will be able to:

• Identify PRINCE2 principles, themes and processes
• Apply PRINCE2 to successfully start and initiate a project
• Define the project’s structure of accountability and responsibilities
• Assess the continuity of project viability and define means to deliver the products
• Create and verify products that are fit for purpose and control project uncertainty
• Outline approved changes to the baseline and control unaccepted deviations
• Plan and manage the product delivery and stage boundary processes
• Conclude the project according to PRINCE2 principles

Targeted Competencies:

• Directing projects
• Initiating projects
• Controlling projects
• Managing product delivery
• Managing stage boundaries
• Closing projects

Course Content:

Unit 1: 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

Unit 2: 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

Unit 3: Risk Theme:

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

Unit 4: Quality Theme:

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

Unit 5: Organization Theme:

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

Unit 6: Plans Theme:

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

Unit 7: Change Theme:

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

Unit 8: 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

Unit 9: Apply PRINCE2® Principles:

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

Unit 10: 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