PRINCE2 Overview

Anyone involved in a PRINCE2™ project or considering using PRINCE2 on their projects

Anyone who wishes to gain a clear understanding of the background, structure and applicability of the PRINCE2™ method.

To provide an overview of PRINCE2™, by outlining its scope, components, processes and techniques. To describe briefly the practical implications of is use.

By the end of this training course you 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

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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.

Typical 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

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