Detailed Course Outline
Navigating the PRINCE2 Process Model
- Starting up and initiating a project
- Testing project viability
- Writing the project product description
- Defining and refining the business case
- Setting up project management controls and strategies
- Tailoring the method to the project
- Assembling project initiation documentation
- Controlling a stage and managing product delivery
- Assigning work to be done, monitoring the work and reporting progress
- Dealing with issues and taking corrective actions
- Controlling the link between the project manager and team manager
- Accepting and executing work packages
- Managing a stage boundary, closing a project and directing a project
- Preparing for an end stage assessment
- Getting ready for the final meeting of the project board
- Directing the project by exception
Clarifying the PRINCE2 Themes
- Developing and maintaining the business case
- Planning project delivery and quality goals
- Verifying and confirming a robust business case
- Assembling the project initiation documentation (PID)
- Appointing project organisation roles
- Defining and establishing the project's structure of accountability and responsibility
- Representing business, user and supplier stakeholders
- Allocating the four levels of management
- Agreeing on project authorities
- Planning a project with PRINCE2
- Defining the seven steps in creating a PRINCE2 plan
- Specifying the contents of a plan
- Establishing the planning levels
- Employing product-based planning
- Establishing product descriptions
- Tracking project progress
- Monitoring the project stages
- Determining project performance targets
- Managing tolerance criteria
- Time
- Cost
- Scope
- Quality
- Risk
- Benefit
- Creating, monitoring and reporting mechanisms
Documenting the Management Strategies
- Managing risks
- Analysing the risks
- Evaluating risk exposure
- Deciding on risk responses
- Developing a plan for ongoing risk management
- Assuring product quality
- Creating and verifying products that are fit for purpose
- Following the quality audit trail
- Conducting a quality review
- Controlling and authorising change
- Incorporating change control and configuration management
- Applying change management procedures
Preparing for the Exam
- Analysing objective test exam question types
- Classical multiple choice
- Multiple response
- Matching
- Sequencing
- Assertion/Reason
- Developing your exam techniques
- Practising with test questions and mock papers
- Managing your time to optimise exam completion
- Completing the Practitioner
- Applying proven tips for exam success
- Taking the exam
- Completing the necessary APMG paperwork