Course description
PRINCE2® Foundation: Virtual In-House Training
Projects fail for a variety of reasons including poor planning, lack of defined quality criteria, poor understanding of the business drivers, inadequate control, and lack of senior management involvement in other words, lack of a structured best practice approach to project delivery.
PRINCE2® (6th Edition is the current version) is a structured, process-based approach to project management providing a methodology which can be easily tailored and scaled to suit all types of projects. It is the de facto standard for project management in the UK Government and is used extensively in more than 150 countries worldwide with in excess of 20,000 organizations already benefiting from its powerful approach. It can be used easily in combination with PMI®’s PMBOK® Guideto provide a robust project management methodology, or to augment an existing PMBOK®-based methodology with additional rigor around areas such as Quality, Organization, and Benefits Realization.
The goals of this course are to provide participants with a thorough grounding in PRINCE2® and its benefits and to prepare them to sit the Foundation exam.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
Who Should Attend
This accredited course is suitable for any organization or individual requiring a controlled and completely scalable approach to managing projects. It is particularly suited to individuals newly appointed to project roles or those wishing to gain formal qualifications after previous project management experience. The course would be of benefit to project managers and also those with project support office or project assurance roles, project board members who wish to be hands-on, and team members aspiring to a more senior role.
Prerequisites
- 8-10 hours of pre-course study
- Traditional Classroom: Approximately two hours of study per evening during the course will be required by those who wish to pass the exam
- Virtual Classroom: Approximately one hour of study between each of the first five sessions will be required by those who wish to pass the exam.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What you will Learn
You’ll learn how to:
- Identify the benefits and principles underlying a structured approach to project management
- Define the PRINCE2® method in depth, including the principles, themes, and processes
- Prepare and practice for the Foundation exam
Training Course Content
Getting Started
- Introductions
- Course structure
- Course goals and objectives
- Overview of the PRINCE2® Foundation exam
PRINCE2® Introduction
- Introducing PRINCE2®
- The structure of PRINCE2®
- What PRINCE2® does not provide
- What makes a project a “PRINCE2® project”?
Project Management with PRINCE2®
- Defining a project
- Managing a project
- Controlling the variables
- The Project Manager’s work
PRINCE2 Principles
- PRINCE2® Principles
- The Seven Principles
Tailoring and Adopting PRINCE2®
- Defining tailoring
- Defining embedding
- What can be tailored?
- Who is responsible for tailoring?
Introduction to the PRINCE2® Themes
- What is a PRINCE2® Theme?
- What are the PRINCE2® Themes?
- Tailoring the themes
- Format of the theme chapters
Business Case
- Need for a business case
- Elements of a business case
- How a business case is developed
- Managing Benefits
Organization
- Need for a special type of organization
- PRINCE2® organization structure
- Roles in a PRINCE2® project
- Combining roles
Quality
- Relevance of quality to project work
- Quality, quality control, and quality assurance
- Quality management approach and the quality register
- Who is responsible for quality?
Plans
- Need for plans and their hierarchy
- Approach to planning
- Content of a PRINCE2® plan
- Product-based planning
Risk
- The need to manage risks
- What is a risk?
- Risk and continued business justification
- A risk management option
Change
- Change is inevitable
- Different types of change
- Baselines and configuration management
- Issue and change control in PRINCE2®
Progress
- Controlling a PRINCE2® project
- The application of tolerance
- Types of control
- Raising exceptions
Introduction to Processes
- Processes and the project lifecycle
- The PRINCE2® journey
- Structure of the process chapters
- Tailoring the processes
Starting up a Project
- Appointing people to the PRINCE2® roles
- Establishing some baselines
- Should we go further with this work?
- Planning for initiation
Directing a Project
- Should we start / continue the project?
- Responding to internal / external influences
- Should we close this project?
Initiating a Project
- Establishing the project’s approaches
- Creating the project plan
- Refining the business case
- Assembling the PID
Controlling a Stage
- Authorizing and reviewing work
- Monitoring and reporting
- Handling non-planned situations
- Triggering the next process
Managing Product Delivery
- Accepting work from the Project Manager
- Getting the work done by the team
- Routine and non-routine reporting
- Handing back the completed work
Managing a Stage Boundary
- Taking stock of what we have done
- Updating the PID
- Consider the options for continuing / stopping
- Producing exception plans
Closing a Project
- PRINCE2® at the end of a project
- Transition of product to operational use
- How well did we do?
- Tying up all the loose ends
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