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Projects fail for a variety of reasons including poor planning, lack of defined quality criteria, poor understanding of the business drivers, inadequate control, and lack of senior management involvement in other words, lack of a structured best practice approach to project delivery.
PRINCE2® (6th Edition is the current version) is a structured, process-based approach to project management providing a methodology which can be easily tailored and scaled to suit all types of projects. It is the de facto standard for project management in the UK Government and is used extensively in more than 150 countries worldwide with in excess of 20,000 organizations already benefiting from its powerful approach. It can be used easily in combination with PMI®'s PMBOK® Guideto provide a robust project management methodology, or to augment an existing PMBOK®-based methodology with additional rigor around areas such as Quality, Organization, and Benefits Realization.
The goals of this course are to provide participants with a thorough grounding in PRINCE2® and its benefits and to prepare them to sit the Foundation exam.
You'll learn how to:
Identify the benefits and principles underlying a structured approach to project management
Define the PRINCE2® method in depth, including the principles, themes, and processes
Prepare and practice for the Foundation exam
Introductions
Course structure
Course goals and objectives
Overview of the PRINCE2® Foundation exam
Introducing PRINCE2®
The structure of PRINCE2®
What PRINCE2® does not provide
What makes a project a 'PRINCE2® project'?
Defining a project
Managing a project
Controlling the variables
The Project Manager's work
PRINCE2® Principles
The Seven Principles
Defining tailoring
Defining embedding
What can be tailored?
Who is responsible for tailoring?
What is a PRINCE2® Theme?
What are the PRINCE2® Themes?
Tailoring the themes
Format of the theme chapters
Need for a business case
Elements of a business case
How a business case is developed
Managing Benefits
Need for a special type of organization
PRINCE2® organization structure
Roles in a PRINCE2® project
Combining roles
Relevance of quality to project work
Quality, quality control, and quality assurance
Quality management approach and the quality register
Who is responsible for quality?
Need for plans and their hierarchy
Approach to planning
Content of a PRINCE2® plan
Product-based planning
The need to manage risks
What is a risk?
Risk and continued business justification
A risk management option
Change is inevitable
Different types of change
Baselines and configuration management
Issue and change control in PRINCE2®
Controlling a PRINCE2® project
The application of tolerance
Types of control
Raising exceptions
Processes and the project lifecycle
The PRINCE2® journey
Structure of the process chapters
Tailoring the processes
Appointing people to the PRINCE2® roles
Establishing some baselines
Should we go further with this work?
Planning for initiation
Should we start / continue the project?
Responding to internal / external influences
Should we close this project?
Establishing the project's approaches
Creating the project plan
Refining the business case
Assembling the PID
Authorizing and reviewing work
Monitoring and reporting
Handling non-planned situations
Triggering the next process
Accepting work from the Project Manager
Getting the work done by the team
Routine and non-routine reporting
Handing back the completed work
Taking stock of what we have done
Updating the PID
Consider the options for continuing / stopping
Producing exception plans
PRINCE2® at the end of a project
Transition of product to operational use
How well did we do?
Tying up all the loose ends