PRINCE2® Foundation 6th Edition
Welcome to the PRINCE2®: Foundation 6th Edition course. Whether you are a seasoned Project Manager, have only a few years of project management experience, or are just beginning your career, this course can be a great help for you. Demonstrating best practices in project management—both on the job and through professional certification—is crucial for competing in today's fast-paced and highly technical workplace. In this course, you will apply the generally recognized practices of project management acknowledged by PRINCE2®. This course will also serve to prepare you for the PRINCE2® Foundation examination.
This class includes an exam voucher.
Prerequisites
Familiarity with project management concepts and some working experience with project management are required. Experience with a specific project management software tool is not required. Basic computing skills and some experience using Microsoft® Office is desirable but not required.
Students must complete pre-work before class. The necessary files can be downloaded from the CHOICE platform Files tab and is saved under the Pre-course Work folder within the data files.
Target Audience
This course is designed for those seeking to achieve the PRINCE2® Foundation certificate,which is an important and valuable qualification,demonstrating increasingly higher levels of competence. This level aims to measure whether a candidate could act as an informed member of a project management team on a project using the PRINCE2® method,within an environment supporting PRINCE2®. To this end they need to show they understand the principles and terminology of the method. It is also the starting point of providing a higher-level qualification.This course is governed by the PRINCE2® Examination Syllabus,which details the topics which must be covered by courses accredited to provide training and prepare candidates for the examinations in PRINCE2®.You may well be very concerned about the examination(s),but you will get some practice before the real thing.
Course Objectives
To help you understand PRINCE2® in respect of its:
- Principles, processes, themes, techniques, and roles for successful project management.
- Management products that are input and output of the processes.
So that you may:
- Attempt the PRINCE2® Foundation exam with confidence.
- Begin to apply the method, tailoring it to your project's needs.
Course Outline
- Overview of PRINCE2
- Introduction to PRINCE2 Foundation
- What is a Project?
- Principles, Themes, Processes and Products
- PRINCE2 Principles
- Business Case Theme (BC)
- Context
- Outputs, Outcomes, (Dis-)Benefits
- Business Case in the Project Lifecycle
- Organization Theme (OR)
- Context
- Management
- The Project Board
- The Project Manager
- Organization in the Project Lifecycle
- Starting Up a Project (SU)
- Context
- Process Overview
- Directing a Project (DP)
- Context
- Process Overview
- Initiating a Project (IP)
- Context
- Process Overview
- Communication Management Strategy
- Project Initiation Documentation
- Quality Theme (QU)
- Context
- Quality Management
- Project Product Description
- Plans Theme (PL)
- Context
- Plan Types
- Stages
- Plans in the Project Lifecycle
- Risk Theme (RK)
- Context
- Risk Management Procedure
- Progress Theme (PG)
- Context
- Tolerances
- Plans in the Project Lifecycle
- Controlling a Stage (CS)
- Context
- Process Overview
- Managing Product Delivery (MP)
- Context
- Process Overview
- Managing a Stage Boundary (SB)
- Context
- Process Overview
- Change Theme (CH)
- Context
- Issues
- Change Control
- Closing a Project (CP)
- Context
- Process Overview
- Examination Preparation
- PRINCE2 Foundation Exam
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