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PRINCE2: Achieving Practitioner Certification

 
Course: 177   Type: Course Workshop   Duration: 5 Days
 
 

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
  • Apply the key components and techniques to the process model
  • 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

Related Courses

 
The PMI R.E.P. logo is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc. PRINCE2™ is a Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce. The PRINCE2 Cityscape logo™ is a Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce in the United Kingdom and other countries. 		 

Upcoming Dates

Feb 2 - 6, 2009
 New York
Apr 20 - 24, 2009
 New York
May 4 - 8, 2009
 Toronto
Jun 8 - 12, 2009
 Ottawa
Jul 20 - 24, 2009
 New York
Aug 31 - Sep 4, 2009
 Toronto

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PRINCE2: Achieving Practitioner Certification

 
Course: 177   Type: Course Workshop   Duration: 5 Days
 
 
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
 
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PRINCE2: Achieving Practitioner Certification Tuition

 
Course: 177   Type: Course Workshop   Duration: 5 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 3,090 Standard Tuition
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Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)

Important Course Information:

  • A minimum of 20 hours of pre-course preparation, depending upon your familiarity with project management concepts
  • 2 hours of home study each evening

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