Course Ref: 27220

Course: PRINCE2 Overview

Course Summary

The aim of this course is to provide delegates with an appreciation of the main features and terms of PRINCE2™. Delegates will be to understand their role in a PRINCE2™ project and participate through PRINCE2™ processes and communications channels.

Course Outline

What is PRINCE2™?

PRINCE2™ has established itself as the premier approach to managing projects. PRINCE2™ is generic – capable of being applied to any kind of project – scaleable and business-driven. Organisations that have adopted the PRINCE2™ have claimed that they have been able to achieve greater customer satisfaction during and at the end of projects, to reduce costs and to realise greater benefit from project deliverables.

Designed for

Anyone involved in a PRINCE2™ project


Prerequisites

None


How you and your organisation will benefit ?

By the end of this Overview course participants will be able to:
  • Understand how a formal method helps manage a project well
  • Know what PRINCE2™ is and isn’t
  • Be familiar with the main components of PRINCE2™
  • Understand the Process Model
Course Outline

PRINCE2™
Background & Objectives
Benefits
Scope

Processes
The Process Model
Controlled Start, Progress & Close

Start Up
Project Brief

Initiating a Project
Project Initiation Document

Product-Based Planning
Product Breakdown Structure
Product Description
Product Flow Diagram

Managing Product Delivery
Work Packages

Controlling a Stage Organisation
Small project organisations
The BUS principle & the project board
The project manager
Team management
Project assurance & project support

Stages
Reasons for stages
Stage tolerances

Managing Stage Boundaries
Preparing for stage assessments

Plans & Planning
Purpose and importance
Components & types of plan
The steps in planning

Controls
Checkpoints & highlight reports
Handling exception situations
Project issues
Project reporting

Closing a Project
Customer Acceptance
Lesson Learned

Risk management
Types of business and project risk
Risk analysis and management
The risk log

Quality
Quality planning
Quality control and quality review

Change Control and Configuration Management
Authority levels
Analysing the impact
Configuration management

PRINCE2™ is a Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce


Where & When

LocationLondon-West End
Start Date4 Jul 08
Price (ex. VAT)£295.00
Venue Info London - Oxford St - 17
ResidentialNo
AvailabilityFull
Duration1 day
Delivered AsVenue and on-site
Pre-course Reading
Pre-course reading is not required for this course
Course Ref27220