Course Outline

PRINCE2™ Practitioner is a 5-day non-residential course with nightly homework, which covers the OGC’s PRINCE2™ Project Management methodology and syllabi for both PRINCE2™ Foundation and Practitioner exams.

We help you to apply PRINCE® to your current project environment during the course so you will gain practical skills by using the techniques to handle real issues. Class sizes are kept small to facilitate lecturer – student interaction and class discussion.

The optional exams can be taken during the course as follows:
The Foundation exam is a 1 hour, 75 question, multiple choice paper in which you must get 50% or 38 questions correct in order to pass. The paper is taken on the Thursday afternoon at the end of the training and marked straight away so that you know your mark before leaving the course.
The Practitioner exam is a 3 hour Objective Test with nine equally weighted questions on a given project scenario. You must get 50% overall in order to pass. You are expected to show your ability to apply the PRINCE2™ method to this scenario. The types of question that you will complete include multiple choice, confirming if statements made about the scenario are correct or not, placing proposed options into the sequence suggested by the PRINCE2™ method, and stating whether assertions made about the scenario match with reasons provided to explain the assertion. The paper is taken after the training on Friday morning, and the papers are all returned to The APM Group for marking, which takes approximately 4 weeks. You will be advised of your result, by Scoll Methods, as soon as the information is available. You may defer taking the Practitioner exam for up to one month after your course, to give you time to consolidate what you have learnt during the week.

This course has been accredited by the APMG who are the examining body for PRINCE2™ and responsible for all aspects of the provision of exams including setting, marking, feedback and appeals. Scoll Methods, as an accredited training organisation, acts as their agent in providing administrative facilities.

If you wish to learn more about the PRINCE2™ Project Management method, view our 30-minute Introduction to PRINCE2™.

What You Will Learn

PRINCE2™ Introduction

• PRINCE2™ and the Big Picture
• 8 components of planning
• 8 processes for managing products
• PRINCE2™ and the product life-cycle

Organisation

• The project management team
• Defining responsiblities for Project Board, Project Manager, Team Managers, and Programme and Project Support

Starting up a Project

• Writing a Project Brief
• The essential Business Case

Initiating a Project

• 70% of success is in the planning
• Compiling a PID

Quality Management

• Defining Customer expectations
• Writing a Quality Plan
• Quality reviews

Planning

• Product-Based planning
• Transforming products into activities

Controls and Stages

• Project controls
• Project Board controls
• Defining your level of authority

Risk Management

• Business and project risk analysis
• Risk management approaches
• Allocating risk ownership

Directing a Project

• Taking authority and responsibility
• Steering through problems

Managing a Project

• Controlling a stage
• Managing product delivery
• Managing stage boundaries

Change Management

• Why Change Control?
• Configuration Management

Closing a Project

• Benefits of obtaining a formal project sign-off
• Why Post-Project Review Plans?

Live Case Study

• Using PRINCE2™ techniques for real projects
• Producing example templates

Pre-Requisites

There are no pre-requisites for delegates to attend the course.