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PRINCE2™: Achieving Practitioner Certification

 
Course: 177     Type: Course Workshop     Duration: 5 Days

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You Will Learn How To
  • Prepare for and take the PRINCE2™ Foundation and Practitioner Exams
  • Work with the eight PRINCE2™ Processes to create a process map
  • Create and critique the management products
  • Plan projects using the Product-Based Planning technique
  • Close projects with expected outcomes, next steps and lessons learned
  • Improve your exam-taking techniques with PRINCE2™ sample questions and papers

Course Benefits
PRINCE2™ (Projects in Controlled Environments) is recognized as a leading best practice methodology for managing all sizes and types of projects. This intensive exam preparatory course provides comprehensive coverage of PRINCE2™. Through practice exams, workshops and overnight study, you gain the knowledge and skills required to take both the PRINCE2™ Foundation Exam, given on Day 4, and the PRINCE2™ Practitioner Exam (a three-hour objective test), given on Day 5.

Who Should Attend
Those who want to achieve PRINCE2™ Foundation and Practitioner certification. Previous project management experience is recommended.

Course Workshop
Exercises performed with a PRINCE2™ accredited trainer utilize a case study to simulate the PRINCE2™ environment. These exercises include:
  • Defining quality expectations and acceptance criteria
  • Evaluating and critiquing a business case
  • Designing a project management team
  • Establishing controls including identifying stages
  • Developing a product-based plan
  • Identifying and ensuring project quality using PRINCE2™
  • Analyzing and managing risk
  • Creating Work Packages

Course 177 Content
Introduction to PRINCE2™
  • The benefits of a structured project management approach
  • Establishing the key elements of PRINCE2™ and how they work together
  • Tailoring PRINCE2™ for projects of varying sizes
  • Directing a project: managing by exception
Building the Pre-Project Foundation
Starting up a project process
  • Determining project objectives and defining the approach
  • Establishing the benefits and risks
Establishing the Business Case
  • Identifying benefits and developing consensus
  • Refining the content and obtaining approvals
Structuring the project management team
  • Appointing a Project Board
  • Specifying well-defined roles and responsibilities
  • Managing the customer/supplier environment
  • Conducting Project Assurance
Planning and Initiating a Project
Producing the Initiation Document
  • Planning project delivery and quality goals
  • Setting up control and communication structures
  • Assembling the Project Initiation Document (PID)
Designing the controls of the project
  • Identifying the project stages
  • Establishing Tolerance criteria
  • Creating monitoring and reporting mechanisms
The PRINCE2™ approach to planning
  • Establishing the planning levels
  • Employing Product-Based Planning
  • Creating the Product Breakdown Structure (PBS) and Product Flow Diagram (PFD)
  • Establishing Product Descriptions
Applying risk assessment to decision making
  • Analyzing the risks
  • Devising risk-response plans
  • Ongoing management of risk
Managing the Project
Controlling a Stage Process
  • Authorizing, reviewing and reporting progress on Work Packages
  • Accepting completed products
Maintaining stage boundaries
  • Analyzing deviations from plan
  • Delivering End Stage Assessments
  • Initiating next stage planning
  • Testing to ensure the Business Case is still sound
Managing the Product Delivery Process
  • Identifying Work Packages
  • Accepting and executing the Work Packages
  • Handing the product back to the project manager
Configuration Management and Change Control
  • Identifying, tracking and protecting the project's products
  • Capturing Project Issues
  • Applying change control
The PRINCE2™ approach to quality
  • Meeting the customers' quality expectations
  • Implementing project and stage quality plans
  • Planning to measure benefit delivery
  • Planning and conducting Quality Reviews
Closing the Project
  • Decommissioning a project
  • Identifying follow-on actions
  • Planning to measure benefit delivery
  • Evaluating the project and improving future performance through Lessons Learned reports
Foundation and Practitioner Exams
Preparing for the exams
  • Gaining insight into the exam process
  • Applying proven tips for exam success
  • Practicing with test questions and mock papers
Foundation Exam: Day 4
  • Taking the exam
  • Obtaining your Foundation exam results
Practitioner Exam: Day 5
  • Taking the exam
  • Completing the necessary APMG paperwork

Important Course Information

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APM Group--PRINCE2 CPE 29 Credits PMI 29 PDU 2 Hour(s) College Credit
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