PRINCE2® Practitioner

This course prepares you for the exam leading to the PRINCE2® Practitioner Certification. This two day certification course follows PRINCE2 Foundation and provides guidance for those seeking to become effective project contributors and for those who wish to obtain the PRINCE2 Practitioner certification. While the Foundation course provides theory, the Practitioner course teaches you how to practically apply the PRINCE2 concepts within a project environment.

Description

PRINCE2 (PRojects IN Controlled Environments) is a process-based, scalable approach for effective project management. PRINCE2 is widely used across the world and is gaining popularity in Australia as a complement to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) championed by the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Learning Outcomes

You will leave the course with knowledge of:

• How to tailor and evaluate the application of PRINCE2 to a project’s size, complexity, risk and importance
• How to align a business case to a project scenario and to evaluate and maintain the business case alignment throughout the lifecycle of a project
• How to develop a communication management strategy considering processes and roles
• How to apply a project communication management strategy
• How to apply and tailor the organisation theme within a project environment
• How to develop, apply, tailor and evaluate the plans, risk and change themes within a project lifecycle
• How to develop a quality management strategy, including how to:
• Prepare a quality audit trail
• Derive customer quality expectations
• Review quality
• Integrate project quality with Quality Management Systems
• How to prepare, apply and evaluate a work package, lesson log, checkpoint report, highlight report, end stage report, exception report, end project report, and a lessons report
• PRINCE2 project processes, including how to apply them and how to tailor them within a project environment; specifically:
• Starting up a project
• Directing a project
• Initiating a project
• Managing stage boundaries
• Controlling a stage
• Managing product delivery
• Closing a project

Target Audience

This course is applicable to those who have successfully completed their Project Management Foundation and PRINCE2 Foundation certification and are looking to learn how to practically apply the knowledge gained in this course to a project environment.

Prerequisites

You must have attained the PRINCE2 Foundation Certificate before you can attend this course.

This is a very intense course with several hours of pre-course work, including reading and completing several exercises. There is also homework.

Exam, Certification & Awards

• This course prepares you for the examination leading to the PRINCE2 Practitioner Certification. A 2.5 hour open book (official PRINCE2 manual only) exam occurs at the end of the course. The exam consists of 8 questions. You must obtain a passing mark of 55% to receive your certificate
• You will attain 14 professional development units (PDUs) for Project Managers

NOTE: PRINCE2 Practitioners must pass a 1-hour Re-registration Examination within three to five calendar years of their original certification to maintain their Registered Practitioner status. Additional details can be found here.

Course Material

Material for this course will only be provided as downloadable soft copy files that can be viewed on a variety of devices. Attendees may print a hard copy of the files in whatever format best meets their needs, and can use the files under the Pink Elephant Terms of Use.