PRINCE2® Combined Foundation & Practitioner Training Course

Course Outline

Our PRINCE2® 2017 Combined Foundation & Practitioner training course will cover the following subjects:

Understand key concepts relating to projects and PRINCE2®:

Recall:

• the definition and characteristics of a project
• the six aspects of project performance to be managed
• the integrated elements of PRINCE2®: principles, themes, processes and the project environment
• what makes a project a PRINCE2® project

Describe:

• the features and benefits of PRINCE2®
• the customer/supplier context on which PRINCE2® is based

Understand how the PRINCE2® principles underpin the PRINCE2® method:

Explain the PRINCE2® principles:

• continued business justification
• learn from experience
• defined roles and responsibilities
• manage by stages
• manage by exception
• focus on products
• tailor to suit the project

Explain which aspects of a project can be tailored, who is responsible, and how tailoring decisions are documented.

Understand the PRINCE2® themes and how they are applied throughout the project:

Explain the purpose of:

• the business case theme
• business case, benefits management approach

Describe PRINCE2®’s minimum requirements for applying the business case theme.

Define key concepts related to business justification, and the differences between them: outputs, outcomes, benefits & dis-benefits.

Explain the purpose of:

• the organisation theme
• communication management approach

Describe what PRINCE2® requires, as a minimum, for applying the organisation theme.

Describe the role and responsibilities of:

• project board
• executive
• senior user
• senior supplier
• project assurance
• change authority
• project manager
• team manager
• project

Explain key concepts related to organisation:

• stakeholder
• the three project interests and how these are represented within the four levels of management

Explain the purpose of:

• the quality theme
• product description, project product description, quality management approach, quality register

Describe PRINCE2®’s minimum requirements for applying the quality theme.

Explain key concepts related to quality, and the differences between them:

• quality planning and quality control
• project assurance and quality assurance
• customer quality expectations and acceptance criteria

Explain the purpose of:

• the plans theme
• project plan, stage plan, exception plan, team plan

Describe PRINCE2®’s minimum requirements for applying the plans theme.

Recall the steps in:

• the recommended approach to planning, including
• the recommended approach to defining and analysing the products and explain:
  • the factors to consider when structuring the project into management stages

Explain the purpose of:

• the risk theme, including the purpose of a risk budget
• risk management approach, risk register

Describe PRINCE2®’s minimum requirements for applying the risk theme.

Define key concepts related to risk, and the differences between them:

• a risk: threat or opportunity
• recommended risk response types
• risk owner and risk actionee
• cause, event and effect
• risk probability, risk impact and risk proximity

Describe the recommended risk management procedure.

Explain the purpose of:

• the change theme, including the purpose of a change budget
• change control approach, configuration item record, issue register, issue report, product status account

Describe PRINCE2®’s minimum requirements for applying the change theme.

Describe:

• types of issue
• the recommended issue and change control procedure.

Explain the purpose of:

• the progress theme
• the daily log, lessons log, lessons report, work package, end stage report, end project report, checkpoint report, highlight report , exception report .

Describe PRINCE2®’s minimum requirements for applying the progress theme.

Explain key concepts related to progress:

• event-driven and time-driven controls
• tolerances and exceptions, including how tolerances are set and exceptions are reported

Understand the PRINCE2® processes and how they are carried out throughout the project.

Explain the purpose of the PRINCE2® processes:

• starting up a project, including the purpose of the project brief,
• directing a project, including the purpose of the project initiation documentation (PID),
• initiating a project,
• controlling a stage,
• managing product delivery,
• managing a stage boundary,
• closing a project.

Explain the objectives of the PRINCE2® processes (as above, excluding the PID and project brief).

Explain the context of the PRINCE2® processes (as above, excluding the PID and project brief).