PRINCE2® Foundation
Certification: APM Group
Duration: 3 Days
Course Delivery: Classroom
Leaflet: download
Key element in the PRINCE2 Foundation course is the PRINCE2 process model using the PRINCE2 Trigger Map. Delegates will be shown how the model is setup, how the different project activities and project roles are linked together and how PRINCE2 deals with exceptions that imminent to occur in any kind of project. During the PRINCE2 Foundation course delegates will learn how to set up a project management organization that is responsible for managing and planning the project. Delegates will be taught how to define the different project management roles to guarantee that the project is run in a most effective and efficient way. The method of ‘management by exception’ will play a crucial role in handling project issues. At the end of the course delegates can take the official PRINCE2 Foundation exam. If in a later stage delegates want to take the official PRINCE2 Practitioner exam they will have to have passed for the PRINCE2 Foundation exam. An accredited PRINCE2 trainer from Trans-Atlantic Consulting Group will give the training course.
The PRINCE2 Foundation training is aimed at measuring 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 the candidate needs to be able to show he or she understands the principles and terminology of the method.
Specifically:
- Understand the purpose and responsibilities of all roles.
- Understand the seven principles, the seven themes, the seven processes, and the Product-based Planning and Quality Review techniques.
- Understand which management products are input to, output from, and updated in the seven processes.
- Understand the purpose of all management products and the composition of the Business Case, Product Descriptions, Issue Report and the Issue, Risk and Quality Registers.
- Understand the relationship between principles, processes, themes, deliverables and roles within a PRINCE2 project.
This course is suitable for project managers, team managers, project support staff, quality assurance staff and for anybody else who is somehow involved in participating or running one or more projects.
The PRINCE2 Foundation course is a 3 day program with the official PRINCE2 Foundation exam given at the end of the third day. The course consists of a mix of theory and practical exercises. Most of the exercises will be done in small groups. Every delegate receives access to our PRINCE2Train e-learning environment, a PRINCE2 Event Manual with exercises and slides and our PRINCE2 Trigger Map.
Day 1
09.00 – 09.30 Introducing ourselves
09.30 – 10.30 Introduction PRINCE2
10.30 – 10.45 Short break
10.45 – 12.30 Organization theme + question 1
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.00 Business Case theme
14.00 – 15.00 Starting Up A Project
15.00 – 15.15 Short break
15.15 – 15.45 Directing A Project
15.45 – 16.30 Initiating A Project
Day 2
09.00 – 09.30 Recap day 1
09.30 – 10.30 Quality theme
10.30 – 10.45 Short break
10.45 – 12.30 Plans theme
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.15 Controlling A Stage
14.15 – 15.00 Risk theme
15.00 – 15.15 Short break
15.15 – 15.45 Risk theme question 2
15.45 – 16.30 Change Theme
Day 3
09.00 – 09.30 Recap day 1 and 2
09.30 – 10.30 Progress Theme
10.30 – 10.45 Short break
10.45 – 11.15 Managing Product Delivery
11.15 – 12.00 Managing a Stage Boundary
12.00 – 12.30 Closing A Project
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.30 Tailoring PRINCE2
14.30 – 14.45 Short break
14.45 – 15.00 Prepare room for PRINCE2 Foundation exam
15.00 – 16.00 PRINCE2 Foundation Exam
16.00 – 16.15 Mark exam papers
16.15 – 16.30 Present exam results to candidates