Course Overview

Introducing the PRINCE2® Project Management Foundation and Practitioner Combined Course

Are you ready to master the art of modern project management and elevate your career to new heights? Our PRINCE2® Project Management Foundation and Practitioner Combined Course is designed to equip you with a comprehensive understanding of PRINCE2®, the leading project management methodology, and prepare you for both the Foundation and Practitioner examinations.

In this dynamic and intensive program, you will embark on a transformative journey that covers the essential principles, practices, and techniques of PRINCE2® . This combined course seamlessly integrates the content of both the Foundation and Practitioner levels, ensuring you gain a deep and practical knowledge of project management.

Course Objectives

• Understand key concepts relating to projects and PRINCE2
• Understand how the PRINCE2 principles underpin the PRINCE2 method
• Understand the importance of people in successful projects
• Understand the PRINCE2 practices and how they are applied throughout the project
• Understand the PRINCE2 processes and how they are carried out throughout the project
• Demonstrate a wider appreciation of PRINCE2 skills and know-how, and apply this in a realistic context
• Efficiently navigate the PRINCE2  Official Book
• Tailor best practice in response to different project circumstances
• Analyse information and reason whether a course of action is effective/appropriate in accordance with PRINCE2 best practice
• Apply PRINCE2 method to your own projects
• Complete the PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner examination

Course Content

1. Introduction to Project Management

2. Principles

3. People

4. Organizing

5. Business Case

6. Processes

7. Starting Up a Project

8. Directing a Project

9. Initiating a Project

10. Plans

11. Quality

12. Risk

13. Issues

14. Progress

15. Controlling a Stage

16. Managing Product Delivery

17. Managing a Stage Boundary

18. Closing a Project

19. Exam Preparation

Course Overview

The purpose of the PRINCE2® Project Management Foundation training program is to equip participants with a fundamental grasp of modern project management, by diving deep into the PRINCE2® project management method. It also aims to assist participants in their preparation for the PRINCE2® Foundation examination, which includes a web proctored exam voucher as part of the course fee.

This course is aligned with the PRINCE2® Project Management Foundation syllabus by PeopleCert syllabus , with continued focus on the traditional challenges of project management, and awareness for today’s environment in which projects are conducted, with a people-centric approach and new project management approaches (Change Management Approach, Commercial Management Approach, Sustainability Management Approach and Data Management Approach).

The course delves into the PRINCE2® framework, its practical application in real-world projects and the Foundation Exam.

PRINCE2® has solidified its position as the foremost approach to project management. It is versatile and can be adapted to various project types, emphasizing tailoring and business alignment. Organizations that have embraced PRINCE2® have attested to heightened customer satisfaction throughout project lifecycles, cost reduction, and increased realization of project deliverable benefits.

Course Objectives

• Understand key concepts relating to projects and PRINCE2
• Understand how the PRINCE2 principles underpin the PRINCE2 method
• Understand the importance of people in successful projects
• Understand the PRINCE2 practices and how they are applied throughout the project
• Understand the PRINCE2 processes and how they are carried out throughout the project

Course Content

1. PRINCE2 and Project Management Key Concepts
   • PRINCE2 Definitions
   • Principles, People, Practices and Processes
   • Project Performance Management
   • Delivery Approaches
2. PRINCE2 Principles
   • Business Justification
   • Learn from Experience
   • Roles, Responsibilities and Relationships
   • Management by Exception
   • Management by Stages
   • Product Focus
   • Tailor to Suit the Project
3. People in Successful Projects
   • Organizational Ecosystem
   • Change Management
   • Stakeholder
   • Culture
   • Collaboration and Co-creation
   • Leadership
   • Management
4. PRINCE2 Practices
   • Management of Products including the PID and Project Log
   • Business Case
   • Project Brief
   • Management Approaches
   • Organizing
   • Planning
   • Quality
   • Risk
   • Issues
   • Progress
5. PRINCE2 Processes
   • Starting Up a Project
   • Directing a Project
   • Initiating a Project
   • Controlling a Stage
   • Managing Product Delivery
   • Managing a Stage Boundary
   • Closing a Project
6. Exam Training and Preparation

Course Overview

PRINCE2® Programme Management Foundation and Practitioner is a Five-day best-practice guide from the Office of Government Commerce, describing a structured approach for managing programmes. It has been developed using the collective expertise and practical experience of some of the leading practitioners in the field. This means that it not only reflects best practice, but is also an accessible, workable technique that has been tested by those working in the real world.

On this accredited PRINCE2® Programme Management training programmes, the course will give you grounding in the PRINCE2® Programme Management Foundation and Practitioner Framework, where delegates will see how to position key individuals and mechanisms in a programme to ensure that they can realise, measure and claim strategic benefits.

Course Objectives

• Plan for and gain crucial “buy-in” from the key stakeholders in your programme
• Align projects to your strategy
• Keep the focus on your change objectives
• Provide your senior management colleagues with a flexible and relevant framework, so they can work with you to direct the change process
• Achieve more efficient use of your resources
• Better control the risks that may be hidden in the detail of activities and projects
• Realise benefits during and after your programme through a formal process

• Improve your control of costs, standards and quality
• Effectively manage your programme’s business case
• Gain efficient control of a whole range of complex range of activities
• Use clear role definitions to avoid confusion and conflict
• Manage better the smooth transition from current to future operations
• Be better briefed to work within large UK public sector programmes and Gateway Reviews
• Gain a recognized Programme Management qualification

Course Content

Building your own map of a programme lifecycle

• Designing your programme team
• How leaders lead a programme
• Drafting a Programme Brief
• How to make sure benefits are realised by good transition management
• Managing the stakeholders & communications in a programme
• Risk management & issues resolution
• Ensure the final capability is of appropriate quality
• Planning, tracking and controlling progress in the programme
• Presenting a Programme Definition
• Managing the developing new business capability and controlling changes
• Integrating the processes, information and roles in the programme.

Programme Management Processes

• Identifying a Programme
• Defining a Programme
• Governing a Programme
• Managing the Portfolio
• Managing the Benefits
• Closing a Programme
• Fitting it all together with a Strategic Case Study.

Examinations

• Mock Examinations
• Examination Tips
• Continuous Assessment to Foundation level

Course Overview

This course provides participants with a thorough understanding of the PRINCE2® Programme Management Foundation methodology, providing the skills needed to confidently use PRINCE2® Programme Management to manage programmes in line with strategic aims of a business and its day to day running.

Delivered by fully accredited trainers and industry leading experts with extensive experience of using PRINCE2® Programme Management , the course includes a relevant, modern case study to help delegates to understand how to apply the PRINCE2® Programme Management way of managing programmes in the real world. There is also plenty of opportunity for delegates to present their exercise results and discuss them with the rest of the class, thus gaining further knowledge from many different points of view in many different industries.

Course Objectives

After you complete this course you will be able to:

• Understand the principles and structure of PRINCE2® Programme Management 
• Understand the benefits of a structured method in a changing environment
• Explain thePRINCE2® Programme Management  process model
• Understand the PRINCE2® Programme Management  themes
• Create a Programme brief
• Create a Programme organisation structure
• Engage with stakeholders at all levels
• Understand the vision and the blueprint and how they can be applied to the best advantage
• Apply progress control mechanisms
• Appreciate the principles of programme level quality and Risk Management
• Realise the importance of configuration management
• Run PRINCE2® Programme Management  for differing environments
• Apply the theory of PRINCE2® Programme Management  to different programme scenarios

Course Content

PRINCE2® Programme Management Philosophy and structure:

• What is a programme and how it differs to both business as usual and project work
• Relationship between the MSP®  principles, governance themes and the transformational flow

The 7 PRINCE2® Programme Management Principles:

• Remaining aligned with corporate strategy
• Leading change
• Envisioning and communicating a better future
• Focusing on benefits and threats to them
• Adding Value
• Designing and delivering a coherent capability
• Learning from experience

The 9 PRINCE2® Programme Management Governance Themes:

• Organisation
• Vision
• Leadership and stakeholder engagement
• Benefits management
• Blueprint design and delivery
• Planning and control
• The Business case
• Risks and issue management
• Quality and assurance management

The 6 PRINCE2® Programme ManagementTransformational Flow Processes:

• Identifying a programme
• Defining a programme
• Managing the tranche
• Delivering the capability
• Realising the benefits
• Closing a programme

Course Overview

PRINCE2® Portfolio Management Practitioner provides advice and examples of how to apply principles, practices, and techniques that together enable the most effective balance of organisational change and business as usual. This course engages with the students to ensure that the theory is embedded and delegates feel confident in the practical application of PRINCE2® Portfolio Management.

Course Objectives

The objective of the course is to prepare students for the PRINCE2® Portfolio Management Practitioner level examination. To confirm understanding of the PRINCE2® Portfolio Management principles, cycles, practices, techniques, roles and documentation. A successful Practitioner candidate should be able to apply and understand how to tailor PRINCE2® Portfolio Management effectively. Plus, with suitable support, be able to advise on the implementation of appropriate practices, techniques, and apply the method to a live portfolio.

Specifically candidates should be able to demonstrate their ability to:Define the business case to get senior management approval for portfolio managementPlan the implementation of portfolio managementSelect and adapt PRINCE2® Portfolio Management principles, practices and techniques to suit different organisational environmentsEvaluate examples of PRINCE2® Portfolio Management information (including documents and role descriptions)Analyse the solutions adopted in relation to a given scenario

Course Content

Module 1 Examination Overview

• An overview of the PRINCE2® Portfolio Management Practitioner exam – length, number and type of questions, etc

Module 2 Implement, sustain and measure

• Identify appropriate approaches when implementing, sustaining and measuring portfolio management for a given scenario
• Analyse whether recommended approaches to implementing, sustaining, and measuring portfolio management have been undertaken appropriately in the context of a given scenario, with reasons

Module 3 Portfolio definition cycle

• Apply and tailor the practices and techniques of the portfolio definition cycle to a scenario
• Identify appropriate practices and techniques within the portfolio definition cycle
• Identify, analyse and distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate application of portfolio definition practices and techniques within a scenario

Module 4 Portfolio delivery cycle

• Apply and tailor the practices, techniques and responsibilities of the portfolio delivery cycle to a scenario
• Identify appropriate practices and techniques within the portfolio delivery cycle
• Identify, analyse and distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate application of portfolio delivery practices within a scenario
• Analyse whether the approaches adopted are appropriate, with reasons, in a given scenario

Module 5 Roles and documentation

• Apply and tailor PRINCE2® Portfolio Management to a scenario
• Identify appropriate application of the main portfolio management roles identified in PRINCE2® Portfolio Management.
• Identify, analyse and distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate application of the syllabus area within a scenario.
• Analyse whether the specified roles have been involved appropriately, with reasons
• Identify appropriate information, using typical contents for inclusion in the relevant portfolio documentation
• Analyse whether the portfolio documentation is fit for purpose, with reasons

Course Overview

PRINCE2® Portfolio Management Foundation provides advice and examples of how to apply principles, practices, and techniques that together enable the most effective balance of organisational change and business as usual.

This course engages with the students to ensure that theory is embedded and delegates feel confident in the practical application of PRINCE2® Portfolio Management.

Course Objectives

The objective of the course is to enable a student to understand the PRINCE2® Portfolio Management principles, cycles, practices, techniques, roles and documentation. This will enable them to work as an informed member of a Portfolio Office or in a range of Portfolio Management roles.

Specifically they will know and understand the:

• Scope and objectives of portfolio management and how it differs from programme and project management
• Benefits from applying portfolio management
• Context within which it operates
• Principles upon which successful portfolio management is based
• Approaches to implementation, the factors to consider in maintaining progress, and how to assess the success of portfolio management
• Purposes of the portfolio management definition and delivery cycles and their component practices and relevant techniques applicable to each practice
• Purpose and key content of the major portfolio documents
• Scope of key portfolio management roles

Course Content

odule 1 Overview

• The definitions of portfolio and portfolio management
• The portfolio management model and the relationship between the principles, cycles, practices and relevant techniques
• The differences between portfolios and portfolio management on the one hand, and projects/project management and programmes/programme management on the other
• The local circumstances that will affect how the MoP principles and practices will be adapted and how cost effective approaches can be adopted
• The objectives and benefits of portfolio management

Module 2 Implement, sustain and measure

• The three broad approaches to implementing portfolio management; when each approach to implementation is most relevant, the advantages of planned approaches to implementation
• The benefits of assessing the impact of portfolio management
• Seven steps (and their benefits) in a staged implementation of portfolio management
• The factors to consider in sustaining progress
• Approaches to assessing portfolio management maturity

Module 3 Strategic and organizational context

The 6 key functions/activities that portfolio management needs to co-ordinate with to achieve strategic objectives.  Identify how portfolio management can:

• Co-ordinate with ‘business as usual’, strategic planning, resource allocation and budgeting, project and programme management, performance management to deliver strategic objectives
• Support effective corporate governance

Module 4 Portfolio management principles

The 5 principles upon which effective portfolio management is based

• Senior management commitment
• Governance alignment
• Strategy alignment
• Portfolio office
• Energised change culture

Module 5 Portfolio definition cycle

The portfolio definition practices:

• Understand
• Categorize
• Prioritize
• Balance
• Plan

Understand the terms and concepts relating to the portfolio definition cycle. The techniques of:

• Three point estimating and reference class forecasting
• Driver-based strategic contribution analysis
• Multi-criteria analysis
• Decision conferencing
• Clear line of sight

What is involved and the keys to success

Module 6 Portfolio delivery cycle

The portfolio delivery practices:

• Management control
• Benefits management
• Financial management
• Risk management
• Stakeholder engagement
• Organisational governance
• Resource management

The techniques of:

• Management by exception
• One version of the truth
• Staged release of funding
• Clear line of sight reporting
• Champion-challenger model

What is involved, the main elements, and keys to success

Module 7 Roles and documentation

• The purposes and responsibilities of the main portfolio management roles identified in PRINCE2® Portfolio Management.
• The purposes of the main portfolio management documentation

Course Overview

PRINCE2 Agile® is the world’s most complete project management solution, combining the flexibility and responsiveness of agile with the clearly defined framework of PRINCE2®. PRINCE2 Agile® has been created for those organisations and individuals who use PRINCE2®   but recognise the benefits of applying agile methods. It provides guidance on how to practically apply both PRINCE2®  and agile, reducing conflict and implementing effectively.

This two day Practitioner course helps prepare you for the Practitioner exam which will assess your ability to apply understanding of the PRINCE2 Agile®  project management method.

PRINCE2 Agile® is a registered trademark of the PeopleCert group. Used under licence from PeopleCert. All rights reserved.

Course Objectives

After you complete this course you will be able to:

• Tailor PRINCE2® to work in the best way possible in an agile context. 
• Blend and weave the principles, processes and themes of PRINCE2® with many of the common ways of working in an agile way. 
• Configure PRINCE2® when in different situations and to incorporate the agile frameworks, behaviours, concepts and techniques in the best way possible to increase the chances of successful project delivery.

Course Content

Fundamentals

Projects and BAU

What is Agile?

The PRINCE2 Agile® Journey

The PRINCE2 Agile® Hexagon – what to fix and what to flex?

Starting Up a Project and Initiating a Project

Assessing value, Cynefin

Requirements and User Stories

Prioritisation (including MoSCoW)

Change (including the feedback loop)

Organisation

Servant Leadership

Principles and behaviours

The Agilometer and Risk

Managing Product Delivery

The Scrum Framework

Plans and Progress

Estimation, Burn charts and Information Radiators

Work Packages

Quality (including the definition of ‘Done’)

Controlling a Stage and Managing a Stage Boundary

Frequest releases and Retrospectives

Directing a Project

Closing a Project

The PRINCE2® Management Products

Rich communication (including Workshops)

Kanban and The Kanban Method

Lean Startup

General guidance (including Project Health Check, transitioning, Project Managements hints and tips)

Course Overview

is five-day course is a combination of the PRINCE2 Agile Foundation and PRINCE2 Agile® Practitioner courses and provides both exams. It provides delegates with a thorough understanding of the PRINCE2 Agile® methodology. During the course we introduce the PRINCE2® methodology and concepts of common agile ways of working, discuss how to blend PRINCE2® with Agile, the purpose and context for blending PRINCE2® and the agile way of working, evaluate the focus areas to a project in an agile context, fix and flex the six aspects of a project in an agile context and be able to apply or tailor the PRINCE2® for a project in an agile context.

All relevant course materials are provided, including the official publication PRINCE2 Agile® and both web proctored exam vouchers.

PRINCE2 Agile® is a registered trademark of the PeopleCert group. Used under licence from PeopleCert. All rights reserved.

Course Objectives

After you complete this course you will be able to:

• Prepare for the PRINCE2 Agile® Foundation Exam
• Prepare for the PRINCE2 Agile® Practitioner Exam
• Understand the key aspects of PRINCE2®
• Understand basic concepts behind common agile ways of working
• Demonstrate the purpose of combining PRINCE2® with agile
• Be able to fix and flex the six aspects of a project in an agile context
• Incorporate the areas that can support a PRINCE2 Agile® implementation
• Blend, apply and weave the principles, processes and themes of PRINCE2® with many of the common ways of working in an agile way. 
• Configure PRINCE2® when in different situations and to incorporate the agile frameworks, behaviours, concepts and techniques in the best way possible to increase the chances of successful project delivery.

Course Content

Foundation Contents

Overview of PRINCE2®

• PRINCE2® Principles
• PRINCE2® Processes and Themes
• PRINCE2® Management Products
• PRINCE2® Journey with Agile

An Introduction to Agile

• Agile Manifesto
• Waterfall vs Agile
• Agile basics and framework
• Agile behaviours, concepts and techniques

Blending PRINCE2® and Agile

• What PRINCE2 Agile comprises of
• Eight PRINCE2 Agile® Guidance Points

What to fix and what to flex

• Performance targets and tolerance
• The “Hexagon”
• The five targets

Agile Behaviours and the PRINCE2® Principles

• Applying PRINCE2® principles
• PRINCE2 Agile® behaviours

Agile and the PRINCE2® Themes

• Tailoring the PRINCE2® Themes
• Tracking progress with burn charts

Agile and the PRINCE2® Processes

• Relating agile processes to PRINCE2® processes
• Tailoring starting up a project and initiating a project
• Tailoring controlling a stage and managing product delivery processes
• Scrum overview and Lean Startup
• Tailoring managing a stage boundary process
• Tailoring closing a project process
• Tailoring directing a project

Focus Areas

• Agilometer
• Requirements
• Rich Communication
• Workshops
• Frequent releases

Practitioner Contents

• Fundamentals
• Projects and BAU
• What is Agile?
• The PRINCE2 Agile® Journey
• The PRINCE2 Agile® Hexagon – what to fix and what to flex?
• Starting Up a Project and Initiating a Project
• Assessing value, Cynefin
• Requirements and User Stories
• Prioritisation (including MoSCoW)
• Change (including the feedback loop)
• Organisation
• Servant Leadership
• Principles and behaviours
• The Agilometer and Risk
• Managing Product Delivery
• The Scrum Framework
• Plans and Progress
• Estimation, Burn charts and Information Radiators
• Work Packages
• Quality (including the definition of ‘Done’)
• Controlling a Stage and Managing a Stage Boundary
• Frequest releases and Retrospectives
• Directing a Project

Course Overview

To complement the PeopleCert PRINCE2 Agile® Practitioner qualification, the Introduction of the PRINCE2 Agile® Foundation certification reinforces PRINCE2 Agile®’s unrivalled reputation as the world’s most complete agile project management method; combining the benefits of agile ways of working, with the governance and structure of the PRINCE2®   method.

The introduction of PRINCE2 Agile® Foundation will enable everyone to benefit from guidance on delivering, managing or working within agile projects and project teams, without the need for any prior knowledge of PRINCE2®.

This 3-day course determines how to use PRINCE2® with Agile ways of working as a foundation certification course.

PRINCE2 Agile® is a registered trademark of the PeopleCert group. Used under licence from PeopleCert. All rights reserved.

Course Objectives

After you complete this course you will be able to:

• Prepare for the PRINCE2 Agile® Foundation Exam
• Understand the key aspects of PRINCE2®
• Understand basic concepts behind common agile ways of working
• Demonstrate the purpose of combining PRINCE2® with agile
• Be able to fix and flex the six aspects of a project in an agile context
• Apply the PRINCE2® principles and tailor the themes, processes and management products to a project in an agile context
• Incorporate the areas that can support a PRINCE2 Agile® implementation

Course Content

Introduction

Part 1

Overview of PRINCE2®

• PRINCE2® Principles
• PRINCE2® Processes and Themes
• PRINCE2® Management Products
• PRINCE2® Journey with Agile

An Introduction to Agile

• Agile Manifesto
• Waterfall vs Agile
• Agile basics and framework
• Agile behaviours, concepts and techniques

Blending PRINCE2® and Agile

• What PRINCE2 Agile®  comprises of
• Eight PRINCE2 Agile®  Guidance Points

What to fix, and what to flex

• Performance targets and tolerance
• The “Hexagon”
• The five targets

Part 2

Agile Behaviours and the PRINCE2® Principles

• Applying PRINCE2®  principles
• PRINCE2 Agile®  behaviours

Agile and the PRINCE2®Themes

• Tailoring the PRINCE2® Themes
• Tracking progress with burn charts

Agile and the PRINCE2® Processes

• Relating agile processes to PRINCE2® processes
• Tailoring starting up a project and initiating a project
• Tailoring controlling a stage and managing product delivery processes
• Scrum overview and Lean Startup
• Tailoring managing a stage boundary process
• Tailoring closing a project process
• Tailoring directing a project

Part 3

Focus Areas

• Agilometer
• Requirements
• Rich Communication
• Workshops
• Frequent releases

Course Overview

New to the Scaled Agile Framework®?

Leading SAFe® offers an introduction to the foundations of SAFe and provides the principles and practices to confidently drive your Lean-Agile transformation. This two-day course and resulting certification equip you with the guidance and tools to build a culture of resiliency and a shared language that engages employees and focuses on customers so that organizations can work with agility at scale.

After this course, you will have a good understanding of both the principles and practice, with the Framework supporting Lean-Agile Programmes, Agile Scaling, Lean-Agile Program Portfolio Management, and Leadership in Scaling. In short, forming a complete Agile Enterprise.

Leading SAFe® answers the questions:

• What is SAFe?
• What is business agility and how does SAFe support it?
• How does an organization get started with the Scaled Agile Framework®?

Course Objectives

How to realize the benefits of SAFe, including:

• How to establish Team and Technical Agility and organize around the flow of value
• How to align massive organizations around clear, common objectives
• How to participate successfully in critical SAFe events, such as PI Planning
• How to adopt a customer-centric mindset

Course Content

• Introducing SAFe
• Embracing Lean-Agile mindset
• Understanding SAFe principles
• Implementing an ART
• Experiencing PI Planning
• Executing and releasing value
• Building an agile Portfolio
• Building Really Big Systems
• Leading a Lean-Agile enterprise