PRINCE2™ Registered Practitioner (includes Foundation)
This accredited course is designed to enable delegates to apply PRINCE2 to the running and managing of a project within an environment supporting PRINCE2. Delegates will undertake the Foundation course on Monday to Wednesday and show that they can apply PRINCE2 to address the needs and problems of a specific project scenario. The Foundation examination (one hour multiple choice) is designed to provide delegates with an in-depth understanding of the principles and terminology of PRINCE2 to act as an informed member of a project management team on a project using the PRINCE2 method, within an environment supporting PRINCE2. The fourth day is used as a mentoring revision and review session for the Practitioner examination (three hours with open-book use of PRINCE2 manual) held on the Friday.
Course duration
5 days. Recommended 20 hours pre-study time required.
Who should attend?
Project staff wishing to demonstrate a recognised level of competence in project management or who are required to play a role in a project conducted in accordance with the PRINCE2 method.
Course content
- Overview and principles
- Organisation, business case
- Change control & controls
- The management of risk, quality in a projectenvironment
- Plans & processes
- Configuration management
- Product-based planning, quality review
Pre-requisites
Ideally a minimum of 1 to 2 years experience in a project environment as a senior manager, project manager, project/team leader or end-user.
Course style
The course is designed to be interactive, with opportunities for discussion. The course devotes time for group-based case studies and exercises. All delegates are provided with the PRINCE2 manual and a Provek pre-study workbook prior to the workshop. Delegates will be required to do evening work during the week of the course. Numbers on each course is limited to ensure the highest quality and level of delegate participation.
Course objectives
Delegates will be able to:
- Describe the purpose and major content of all roles, the eight components, the eight
processes, and the techniques.
- State which management products are input to, output from, and updated in the
eight processes, and the sub-processes of Controling a Stage (CS) and Managing
Product Delivery (MP).
- State the main purpose, and key contents, of the major management products as
identified in the detailed syllabus.
- State the relationships between processes, deliverables, roles and the management
dimensions of a project.
In addition, Practitioner level delegates will be able to:
- Produce detailed explanations of all processes, components and techniques, and worked examples of all PRINCE2 products as they might be applied to address the particular circumstances of a given project scenario.
- Demonstrate that they understand the relationships between processes, components, techniques and PRINCE2 products and can apply this understanding.
- Demonstrate that they understand the reasons behind the processes, components
and techniques of PRINCE2, and that they understand the principles underpinning
these elements.
- Demonstrate their ability to tune PRINCE2 to different project circumstances. PRINCE2 Registered Practitioner (includes Foundation