This course, designed by QA's industry leading project management experts, is fully accredited by the BCS and provides you with a thorough understanding of the internationally recognised PRINCE2 project management methodology.
By passing the Practitioner exam, candidates should be able to apply and understand how to tailor PRINCE2 effectively to a project within an organization environment supporting PRINCE2.
Specifically delegates should:
- Understand the relationships between the roles, management products, principles, themes, techniques and processes
- Be able to apply the principles, themes and processes to a project
- Be able to create and assess management products.
Overview, Principles and Tailoring PRINCE2 to the Project Environment
- Difference between embedding and tailoring PRINCE2
The 7 PRINCE2 Principles
- Continued Business Justification
- Focus on Products
- Manage-by-Stages
- Manage-by-Exception
- Defined Roles and Responsibilities
- Learn from Experience
- Tailor to Suit the Project Environment
The 7 PRINCE2 Processes
- Starting up a Project
- Initiating a Project
- Directing a Project
- Controlling a Stage
- Managing Product Delivery
- Managing a Stage Boundary
- Closing a Project
The 7 PRINCE2 Themes
- Business Case
- Organization
- Quality (including the PRINCE2 Quality Review Technique)
- Risk
- Change
- Progress
- Plans (including the PRINCE2 Product-Based Planning Technique)
Examination Preparation
- In preparation for your PRINCE2 Practitioner exam, you will undertake:
- An explanation of mechanics of the Practitioner exam, including the different styles of question within the 'Objective Test Examination' format
- Examination techniques
- Mock Practitioner questions, using official sample exam papers
- Question and answer session
- Revision of major topics
Applying PRINCE2 in your own projects
- Converting knowledge to action
- Real life application of PRINCE2
- Tailoring
- What's right and wrong
- Solutions
Accreditations and exams