PRINCE2 2009 Foundation and Practitioner

Prerequisites:

There are no prerequisites other than a basic awareness of project work in the delegates own business environment.

Please note: You must bring signed photo ID with you on exam days (passport, driving license, student card) as you will be asked to produce it by the invigilator prior to the exam.

Course Description:

This five-day accredited course provides participants with a thorough grounding in PRINCE2:2009® and is comprised of three main elements. The first provides coverage of PRINCE2:2009 principles, the need for structured project management, why pragmatic and intelligent use of methods is so important and how PRINCE2:2009 can be employed to achieve business-related objectives.

The second element considers the method itself:

• The structure of PRINCE2:2009
• How the major themes and processes work on their own as well as together. The themes are examined in detail as are the processes and their related activities
• How the roles associated with the PRINCE2:2009 method can be made really effective.

The third element deals with the tailoring of PRINCE2:2009 and explores the need for tailoring the method when introducing it into a different environments and using it in different sizes of project, always bearing in mind the need to keep bureaucracy to a minimum.

Presented by skilled lecturers with extensive experience in the practical application of project management, the course includes examination coaching and practice using sample questions.

All delegates will sit the PRINCE2:2009 Foundation examination (a multiple choice paper) in the late afternoon of the third day of the course. Delegates who wish to appear on the central register for qualified PRINCE2:2009 Practitioners may sit the Practitioner examination on the morning of the fifth day of the course.

Flexibility is a key issue within the PRINCE2:2009 examination, therefore delegates can either take the examination on the final day of the course or at a later date when they are feeling more confident of their understanding of the method and its application. Delegates choosing to take the examination at a later date will attend the first 3 days of the course and return to attend the final 2 days, taking the examination on the morning of the second day. When making your booking please advise of your attendance preference. This course is fully compliant with the latest version of PRINCE2:2009, and carries the award of 37.5 Professional Development Units (PDUs) for PMI re-certification.

This course includes the following modules:

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
• Establish project & 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