What is PRINCE2®

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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).