The PRINCE2® Foundation and Practitioner training is a 5-day intensive program, which covers the OGC's PRINCE2® Project Management methodology and syllabus. You will gain practical skills by using the techniques to handle real issues. The training program will provide delegates with a firm grounding in the sensible application of the project management method. Delegates will be able to confidently take the PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner Examination within the 5 training days. Course case studies will assist delegates in applying the principles to a variety of scenarios. Project Pro is a highly experienced organization and has successfully prepared over a 1,000 participants in their PMP®, CAPM® and PRINCE2® exams. The program includes comprehensive study materials and substantial practice exam questions that will be reviewed throughout the program, thoroughly preparing participants for the exam. (Note: Please enquire for public fulltime/part-time schedule or for in-house or group training)

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Course Benefits

Note: It is recommended that participants complete both the Foundation and Practitioner program within the same 5-day session (together with both exams), rather than to do them separately.

Through the course, delegates need to exhibit the competence required for the Foundation and Practitioner qualification, and show that they can apply PRINCE2® approaches to address the needs and problems of a specified project scenario. Specifically, candidates must be able to:

• Describe the purpose and major content of all roles, the components, the processes and the sub-processes, and the techniques.
• State which management products are input to, and output from the 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.
• Learn the sub-processes functions and input-outputs from the knowledge gained from PRINCE2® foundation process.
• Produce detailed explanations of all processes and sub-processes, components and techniques
• Provide examples of all PRINCE2® products as they might be applied to address the particular circumstances of a given project scenario
• Show the understanding of the relationships between processes, components, techniques and PRINCE2® products and how these knowledge can be effectively applied.
• Demonstrate the understanding of the reasons behind the processes, components and techniques of PRINCE2®, and the rationale and linkages underpinning these elements
• Demonstrate their ability to tune PRINCE2® to different project circumstances
• Analyze different project scenarios using all the combined knowledge learned from the PRINCE2® training

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Target Audience

There is no pre-requisites. This course leads to the internationally recognized PRINCE2® project management professional qualification and would be ideally suited for current or those intending to become:

• Project Managers
• Project and Team Leads
• Program Managers
• Portfolio Managers
• Project SMEs
• PMO Staff (Project Management Office)
• Team Members and staff who have project related roles
• Team Managers and Support Staff

This program is also suitable to existing certified PMPs who would like to reinforce and expand on their project skills and knowledge while simultaneously gaining certification renewal PDUs.

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Course Outline

The program will cover in detail all the key topics and knowledge to effectively understand and apply the PRINCE2® approach:

• Introduction to project management
• Overview of PRINCE2® and the 7 principles
• The process model
• Business Case Theme
• Organisation Theme
• Quality Theme & Quality Reviews
• Plans Theme and Product-based Planning
• Risk Theme
• Progress Theme
• The Change Theme
• Project Start Up
• Initiating a project
• Controlling a Stage
• Managing product delivery
• Managing Stage Boundaries
• Closing a Project
• Directing a Project
• Applying PRINCE2®

About the PRINCE2® exams:

This is an intensive program where participants will cover the contents, do practice exam questions and quizzes, study and complete both the Foundation Exam (1 hour) and Practitioner Exam (2.5 hours) within the 5 days.

The Foundation Exam is a 1-hour multiple-choice format closed-book exam with 75 Questions of which a minimum of 35 correct answers (50% of 70) are required to achieve a Pass. 5 pre-fixed but unidentified questions will not contribute to the score.

The Practitioner Exam is a 2.5 hours open-book examination (only the PRINCE2® Manual is allowed). The exam consists of eight questions and a short scenario plus some appendices that are relevant to specific questions. The eight questions will be sub-divided into parts. Each of the eight questions is worth 10 marks giving a total possible of 80 marks. The pass mark is 44.
 

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Trainer Profile

Charles Lim (MBA, BSc, PMP, PRINCE2, CMC-BCI Certified Master Coach, Grad Dip SA, Grad Dip AI, AFP, AWP)

Charles Lim (MBA, BSc, PMP, PRINCE2, CMC-BCI Certified Master Coach, Grad Dip SA, Grad Dip AI, AFP, AWP) has over 30 years of career experience. He has spearheaded business projects and led both project teams and management teams overseeing functional areas including Sales, Marketing, Operations, Procurement, HR and Finance. Charles has also taken on a wide array of business and managerial roles and responsibilities with strategic and bottom-line accountability from both the Revenue as well as Cost perspectives.

Charles is a long-term practicing corporate trainer and management consultant who have trained and worked with thousands of personnel in the region, enabling organizations to prioritize and strategize growth through enhancing, aligning and leveraging on the capacity of an organization's processes, technology and, very importantly, its people. Charles has also successfully trained over a thousand participants in both PMP® and PRINCE2® certification programs.

He has also helped establish internal auditing procedures and identify related KPIs. Charles' many successes are bound by his extensive experience complemented by his inimitable approach in bringing across difficult concepts or apparently conflicting perspectives of different stakeholders to a new alignment.

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