PRINCE2 Practitioner Upgrade

You will use real life case study sessions, practice exam paper exercises and in-depth classroom sessions to extend your ability to apply PRINCE2 processes and planning components and pass the official PRINCE2
Practitioner exam which is included in the course. The course is intensive and some evening work will be required.

Key Learning Points

Starting up a project
• Organisation responsibilities
• Project Assurance responsibilities
• Understanding the Business Case
• Developing a Project Brief

Initiating a Project
• Developing the Project Quality Plan
• Understanding Project Assurance
• Developing and implementing Configuration Management

Planning and Plans
• Understanding the rules of Product Based Planning
• Building effective Product Breakdown Structures
• Writing clear Product Descriptions
• Rules for creating Product Flow Diagrams
• Developing an activity model (Gantt chart) from the Product Flow Diagram

Setting Controls and managing Risk
• Setting Stage Boundaries
• Setting Tolerances
• Handling Issues
• Designing an Exception Procedure
• Implementing Risk Management

Running the project
• Understanding the full process model
• Understanding the controls on production teams
• Developing a Work package

Managing Stage Boundaries
• Responsibilities in the next Stage Plan
• Transition to Closing a Project
• Finalising project documentation

Real Life Case Studies
• Writing the Project Brief
• Developing a Project Quality Plan
• Developing the Product Breakdown Structure
• Writing a Product description
• Developing an Activity Plan (Gantt chart)
• Defining Stage Boundaries
• Handling a real life Project Issue

Exam Practice Questions
• Designing the Project Management Team
• Risk Analysis & Management
• Stage boundaries
• Planning and managing Quality

Outline Timetable

Day 1
• Course Introduction
• Starting up a Project and the Business Case
• Exam Advice
• Exam Question
• Initiating a Project and Quality
• Planning and Plans
• Case Study
• Homework

Day 2
• Review of Day 1
• Risk and Controls
• Exam Question
• Controlling a Stage
• Case Study
• Homework

Day 3
• Review of Day 2
• Managing Stage Boundaries
• Tailoring PRINCE2
• Individual Exam Questions
• Class Review
• PRINCE2 Practitioner Exam

Note: actual running order may be modified at Trainer’s discretion

Course Hours
• The course will start at 09:30am on Day 1 and finish at approximately 05:00pm
• Some evening work is required and this should last for 1 – 2 hours every night