Our PRINCE2® Foundation classroom courses allow you to learn how to effectively manage a project, through one of the world’s most recognized project management methodologies, in an environment where you can actively participate and engage with both the material and others around you.

 

 COURSE OUTLINE 

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Introduction – PRINCE2

• What are Projects?

• Why a Project Management Method?

• What is PRINCE2?

• Six variables / six performance targets

• PRINCE2 Structure

• What does PRINCE2 not cover?

• Benefits of using PRINCE2

• What does a Project Manager do?

 

The Process Model and Project Timeline

• The PRINCE2 Process Model

• Project Timeline

• Starting Up a Project

• Initiating a Project Process / Initiation Stage

• Controlling a Stage – 1st delivery stage

• Next delivery stages

• Last delivery stage and Closing a Project

 

The path to creating the Business Case

• Step 1: Develop the Business Case

• Step 2: Verify the Business Case

• Step 3: Maintain the Business Case

• Step 4: Confirm the Benefits

 

Principles

• Principles: Continued Business Justification

• Principles: Learn from Experience

• Principles: Defined Roles and Responsibilities

• Principles: Manage By Stages

• Principles: Manage by Exception

• Principles: Focus on Products

• Principles: Tailoring or Tailor to suit the Project Environment

 

Themes Introduction

• Theme: Business Case

• Theme: Organization

• Theme: Quality

• Theme: Plans

• Theme: Risk

• Theme: Change

• Theme: Progress

 

Business Case Theme

• What happens in the real world?

• The Business Case knowledge provided by PRINCE2

• What does a Business Case do for the project?

• How to best describe what you get from a project?

• Different types of Business Case

 

Organization

• The Organization Knowledge provided by PRINCE2

• Organization Definitions

• Three Project Interests / 3 Stakeholder Categories

• The four levels of Organization

• Project Board

• The Project Board Roles

• Project Assurance: User, Business & Supplier

• The Change Authority Role

• The Project Manager Role

• Team Manager & Project Support

• Project Support  and center of excellence

• Project Manager and the Project Organization

• Stakeholder Engagement

• The Communication Management Strategy

• Responsibilities for Organization Theme

 

Plans

• The Plans Knowledge provided by PRINCE2

• Plans Lingo

• Three levels of a Plan

• The Path to Planning

• The Project Plan, Stage Plan and Team Plan

• The Exception Plan

 

Quality

• What happens in the real world?

• The Quality Knowledge provided by PRINCE2

• Quality Lingo

 

Introduction to the PRINCE2 Approach to Quality

• Quality Plan Steps – Quality Audit Trail

• The Customer’s Quality Expectations

• Acceptance Criteria

• The Project Product Description

• The Quality Management Strategy Document

• Product Descriptions

 

Quality Control Introduction & Quality Methods

• Quality records, approval records and acceptance records

• The PRINCE2 Quality Review Technique

• Responsibilities

• Quality Summary

 

The PRINCE2 Planning Steps and Design the Plan

• Step 1: Design the Plan

• Step 2: Product-Based Planning Introduction

• Step 3: Identify Activities and Dependencies

• Step 4: Prepare Estimates

• Step 5: Prepare the schedule

 

Risk Theme

• Purpose of the knowledge in the Risk Theme

• What is Risk Management

• The Management of Risk Method & Risk Context

• The Risk Register – Risk History

 

The Risk Management Procedure

• Step 1: Identify

• Step 2: Assess Risk: Estimating, Evaluating

• Step 3: Plan is about Planning the Responses

• Step 4: Implement the Responses

• Step 5: Communicate

 

Change

• Purpose of knowledge in the Change Theme

• The PRINCE2 Approach to Change

• Configuration Management Strategy

• How to prioritize issues & track severity

• Change Authority and Change Budget

• Management Products used by the Change Theme

 

The Configuration Management Procedure

• Issue and Change Control Procedure

• Capture:  Issue and Change Control Procedure

• Examine:  Issue and Change Control Procedure

 

Roles and Responsibilities

• Propose

• Decide

• Implement

 

Progress

• Purpose of the information in the Progress Theme

• Progress, Progress Controls, Exceptions and Tolerances

• What is the PRINCE2 Approach to Progress?

• What are the 3 Project Board Controls?

• Use of Management Stages for Control

 

What are Technical Stages?

• Event-Driven and Time-Driven Controls

• How does the Project Manager review progress?

• Capturing and reporting lessons

• Reports used to Report Progress

• What is Raising Exceptions?

 

Processes

• The PRINCE2 Processes

• Pre-Project

• Initiation Stage

• Next Stage or Stages after the Initiation Stage

• The PRINCE2 Process Model

 

Starting Up a Project

• Purpose & Objective of the Starting Up a Project Process

• Appoint the Executive and the Project Manager

• Design and appoint the Project Management Team

• Select Project Approach and Assemble Project Brief

 

Initiating a Project

• Prepare the Risk Management Strategy

• Prepare the Configuration Management Strategy

• Prepare the Quality Management Strategy

• Prepare the Communication Management Strategy

• Setting Up the Project Controls

• Create the Project Plan

• Refining the Business Case

• Assemble the Project Initiation Documentation

 

Directing a Project

• Activity 1: Authorize initiation

• Activity 2:  Authorize the project

• Activity 3: Authorize a Stage or Exception Plan

• Activity 4: Give ad hoc Direction

• Activity 5: Authorize Project Closure

 

Managing Product Delivery

• Activity: Accept a Work Package

• Activity: Execute a Work Package

• Activity: Deliver a Work Package

 

Managing a Stage Boundary

• Activity 1: Plan the next Stage

• Activity 2: Update the Project Plan

• Activity 3: Update the Business Case

• Activity 4: Report stage end

• Activity 5: Produce an Exception Plan

 

Closing a Project

• Activity 1: Prepare planned closure

• Activity 2: Prepare premature closure

• Activity 3: Handover products

• Activity 4: Evaluate the project

• Activity 5: Recommend Project Closure