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What
is PRINCE2®
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Training
PRINCE2®
stands for PRojects IN Controlled
Environments. It is derived from
PROMPTII in 1975 which was originally for IT projects.
Then adopted by OGC (Office of Government Commerce)
in 1979. It is developed into PRINCE2®
in 1996.
PRINCE2®
is a process-based approach for project management
providing an easily tailored and scaleable method
for the management of all types of projects. The method
is the de-facto standard for project management in
the UK and is practiced worldwide.
The
benefits of using PRINCE2
* Identifies management, specialist and quality Products/Deliverables
and helps ensure that they are produced on time and
to budget; focuses attention on the quality of Products/Deliverables;
* Separates the management and specialist aspects
of Organisation, Planning and Control;
* Facilitates controls at all levels;
*
Makes the project’s progress more visible to
management;
* Provides a communication medium for all project
staff;
* Ensures that work progresses in the correct sequence;
* Involves senior management in the project at the
right time and in the right place;
* Allows the project to be stopped and, if required,
re-started completely under management control, at
any time in the project’s life;
*
It has a well established User Group dedicated to
the support, promotion and strengthening of the method.
If you want to become a Registered Practitioner, you
must sit the Foundation Examination
and then the Practitioner Examination,
in that order.
If
you pass both examinations in the same week, you will
receive a Practitioner Certificate but not a Foundation
Certificate - as you cannot sit the Practitioner exam
without first having passed the Foundation, it is
not necessary to send a separate Foundation Certificate.
Foundation
Examination
The
Foundation is the first of the two PRINCE2®
Examinations you are required to pass to become a
PRINCE2®
Practitioner.
This
level is aiming to measure whether a candidate would
be able to act as an informed member of a project
management team using the PRINCE2®
method within a project environment supporting PRINCE2®.
To this end they need to show they understand the
principles and terminology of the method, specifically,
candidates must be able to:
*
Describe the purpose and major content of all roles,
the eight components, the eight processes and the
sub-processes, and the techniques.
* State which management products are input to, and
output from the eight processes.
* State the main purpose, and key contents, of the
major management products.
* State the relationships between processes, deliverables,
roles and the management dimensions of a project.
Format
*
Multiple-choice
* One hour duration
* 75 questions
* 38 correct answers are required to pass
* Closed-book
Practitioner
Examination
This
level is aiming to measure whether a candidate would
be able to apply PRINCE2®
to the running and managing of a project within an
environment supporting PRINCE2®.
To this end they need to exhibit the competence required
for the Foundation qualification, and show that they
can apply and tune PRINCE2®
to address the needs and problems of a specific project
scenario, specifically, candidates must be able to:
Produce
detailed explanations of all processes, components
and techniques, and worked examples of all PRINCE2®
products as they might be applied to address the particular
circumstances of a given project scenario.
Show they understand the relationships between processes,
components, techniques and PRINCE2®
products and can apply this understanding.
Demonstrate that they understand the reasons behind
the processes, components and techniques of PRINCE2®,
and that they understand the principles underpinning
these elements.
Demonstrate their ability to tune PRINCE2®
to different project circumstances.
Format
*
9 questions, with a scenario background and appendices.
* Each of the 9 questions is worth 12 marks.
* An overall score of 59 out of a possible 108 is
required to pass.
* Two and half hour duration.
* Open-book examination (only the PRINCE2®
Manual is allowed).
PRINCE2®
is a Registered Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce in the
United Kingdom and other countries.
The Swirl logo™
is a Trade Mark of the Office of Government
Commerce.
LearnProject
PRINCE2® courses are run in association with SPOCE Project Management Ltd.
LearnProject provides PRINCE2 and MS Project training courses in
Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex and
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