PRINCE2® Foundation 2009 training course

Quick course guide

This course is ideal for:

Project team members
Entry-level Project Managers
Undergraduate or graduate students studying project management

What you'll learn

Principles and tailoring PRINCE2 to the project environment
Business case theme
Organisation theme
Quality theme
Plans theme
Risk theme
Change theme
Progress theme
Starting up a project process
Directing a project process
Initiating a project process
Controlling a stage process
Managing product delivery process
Managing a stage boundary process
Closing a project process

Included

24x7 support by expert mentors
Hands-on interactive exercises
Practise exam questions
Certification guarantee

PRINCE2 2009

• Recognise the benefits of using a project management methodology Identify the characteristics of a project
• Recognise the benefits of the PRINCE2 methodology
• Recognise key principles of PRINCE2
• Identify the PRINCE2 themes Match PRINCE2 processes with corresponding project stages
• Project organisation, Planning and Risk (PRINCE2: 2009-aligned)
• Identify the purpose of project Organisation
• Identify the products of the Organisation theme
• Match PRINCE2 project management roles with corresponding responsibilities
• Identify the purpose of a Business Case
• Match PRINCE2 roles with corresponding responsibilities relevant to the Business Case
• Identify the recommended contents of a Business Case
• Differentiate between the different types of plans in a PRINCE2 project
• Dequence the steps for producing a PRINCE2 plan
• Recognise the benefits of product-based planning
• Identify the purpose of the Risk theme
• Identify the definition of risk tolerance
• Identify key activities related to the steps in the risk management procedure

Project quality, change and progress

• Match the products of quality planning with their corresponding purposes
• Recognise the purpose of quality control in a PRINCE2 project
• Match roles related to the quality review technique with corresponding responsibilities
• Identify the objectives of the quality review technique
• Identify the purpose of the Change theme
• Identify the Project Board’s responsibilities regarding change control
• Match management products used for project control with corresponding definitions
• Order examples of the steps in the issue and change control procedure technique
• Recognise the reason for breaking a project into stages
• Identify the PRINCE2 principles that are supported by the Progress theme
• Recognise examples of tolerance
• Identify management products used to control a PRINCE2 project

Starting up, initiating and directing a project

• Identify the purpose of the Starting up a Project process
• Recognise how PRINCE2 principles are supported within the Starting up a Project process
• Match PRINCE2 roles with corresponding responsibilities within the activities of the Starting up a Project process
• Identify the purpose of the Directing a Project process
• Recognise how PRINCE2 principles are supported within the Directing a Project process
• Recognise the objectives of the Directing a Project activities
• Identify management products used in the Directing a Project process
• Identify the purpose of Initiating a Project process
• Identify the four management strategy documents created during the Initiating a Project process
• Match management products used in the Initiating a Project process with corresponding characteristics

Controlling, managing and closing a project

• Identify the purpose of the Controlling a Stage process
• Recognise how PRINCE2 principles are supported within the Controlling a Stage process
• Recognise key concepts associated with each of the activities of the Controlling a Stage process
• Recognise the purpose of the Managing a Stage Boundary process
• Recognise how PRINCE2 principles are supported within the Managing a Stage Boundary process
• Recognise key concepts associated with each of the activities of the Managing a Stage Boundary process
• Recognise the purpose of the Managing Product Delivery process
• Recognise how PRINCE2 principles are supported within the Managing Product Delivery process
• Recognise the objectives of the activities within the Managing Product Delivery process
• Recognise the purposes of the Closing a Project process
• Match the inputs to the Closing a Project process with descriptions of how they are used in the process

Tailoring PRINCE2 to a project environment

• Identify the definition of tailoring Identify the project type that is most easily tailored to PRINCE2 Identify activities that represent tailoring
• PRINCE2 Recognise the difference between a programme and a project
• Recognise which PRINCE2 activities take place at the programme level
• Identify whether management products would exist at the project or programme level
• Recognise how PRINCE2 would be tailored for a simple project
• Recognise how PRINCE2 themes are tailored within the customer/supplier environment
• Recognise how the customer/supplier environment affects tailoring PRINCE2 processes and management products

Average salary trend for a PRINCE2 Project Manager

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