PRINCE2® Foundation and Practitioner

This course is a combined foundation and practitioner course and the format was chosen to ensure that candidates builds higher level skills on a solid foundation while PRINCE2 roles, products, themes and principles are still top-of-mind.

Learn how to work in a project environment using the most internationally recognized project management method. Ensure that team members focus on the viability of the project in relation to its business case objectives. Promote consistency of project work and the ability to reuse project assets while facilitating staff mobility and reducing the impact of personnel changes/handovers. Design plans and reports to meet the needs of each level in the project team and Project Board, improving communication and control. Mitigate perceived problems and issues and focus on the viability of the project throughout. Evaluate the project portfolio to bring clarity and allow improvements in reviewing projects.

The course is aimed at project managers and aspiring project managers. It is also relevant to other key staff involved in the design, development and delivery of projects, including: Project Board members (e.g. Senior Responsible Owners), Team Managers (e.g. Product Delivery Managers), Project Assurance (e.g. Business Change Analysts), Project Support (e.g. Project and Programme Office personnel) and operational line managers/staff.

The foundation level content ensures that candidates have sufficient knowledge and understanding of the PRINCE2 method to be able to work effectively with, or as a member of, a project management team working within an environment supporting PRINCE2.

The practitioner level content aims to confirm whether the candidate has achieved sufficient understanding of how to apply and tailor PRINCE2 in a scenario situation.

A successful practitioner candidate should, with suitable direction, be able to start applying the method to a real project but may not be sufficiently skilled to do this appropriately for all situations. Their individual project management expertise, complexity of the project and the support provided for the use of PRINCE2 in their work environment will all be factors that impact what the practitioner can achieve.

Day 1

• Introduction and overview
• Principles and tailoring PRINCE2
• PRINCE2 Themes
  • The business case
  • The organization

Day 2

• PRINCE2 Themes
  • Quality
  • Plans
  • Risk

Day 3

• PRINCE2 Themes
  • Change
  • Progress
• PRINCE2 Processes
  • Starting a project

Day 4

• PRINCE2 Processes
  • Directing a project
  • Initiating a project
  • Controlling a project
  • Managing project delivery
  • Managing stage boundaries

Day 5

• PRINCE2 Processes
  • Closing a project
• Sample exam and review
• Product based planning example

The formal course is based on a set of lectures supported by slides, student handbooks, exercises and sample examination questions. This course consists of two student manuals that expand on the topics covered in the lectures. Students should use this material to prepare for the exam.

There are no prerequisites to attend this course.

Candidates should however hold the PRINCE2 Foundation qualification before they can attempt to write the practitioner examination.

• 75 questions
• 1 hour multiple choice
• 35 or more correct to pass

• 8 questions worth 10 marks each (giving a maximum of 80 marks in the exam)
• 2.5-hour scenario based, objective examination
• Pass mark is 55% (44 marks)