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PRINCE2™ in Practice: Applying the Method to Your Projects

Course: 916   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
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You Will Learn How To

  • Tailor and scale the PRINCE2™ method to your projects
  • Identify project benefits and determine a viable approach
  • Balance the project plan, benefits and risks
  • Instigate, track and control the straightforward delivery of work
  • Control unexpected elements and project issues as they arise
  • Conclude projects in a manner that ensures visible success

Course Benefits
PRINCE2™ offers a wealth of practical tools and techniques that can improve your project management competence. During this course, you implement proven PRINCE2™ principles and practices, which result in consistently successful projects with engaged and involved stakeholders. You learn to employ a critical project management methodology that can be tailored to projects of all types and sizes.

Who Should Attend
Managers who want to understand the real world application of PRINCE2™ and those who will use PRINCE2™ on their projects. Skills at the level of Course 296, "Project Management: Skills for Success", or Course 340, "Project Management for Software Development", are assumed. PRINCE2™ certification is not required.

RealityPlus
Experiential activities allow you to simulate real-world situations and practise the skills presented throughout the course. Activities include:
  • Base-lining the PRINCE2™ process model
  • Establishing a successful start to the project
  • Presenting to decision makers for project authorisation
  • Tracking Work Packages
  • Managing change and exceptions
  • Measuring and highlighting project success
  • Gathering personal lessons learned

Course Content
Introducing the PRINCE2™ Model
  • How a PRINCE2™ project works
  • Controlling the project with a start, middle and end
  • Translating the manual to practical application
Starting up a Project
Analysing liability and value
  • Comparing the mandate to the Project Brief
  • Enhancing the starting position
  • Outlining the business case
Gaining consensus on the starting position
  • Setting and managing expectations
  • Choosing your battles
  • Making the tradeoffs visible
  • Selecting tailoring decision drivers
Determining the next steps
  • Identifying the work to plan the project
  • Gaining senior management commitment
Logging barriers to success
  • Capturing deficiencies in the starting point
  • Forecasting risk to the project as a whole
Initiating the Project
Managing quality simply and directly
  • Creating an effective quality log
  • Utilising the quality log to track the project
Adapting project controls to your situation
  • Implementing management by exception
  • Balancing risks, costs and benefits
  • Identifying stages and tolerances
  • Designing the communication plan
  • Communicating your successes
Plans and Product-Based Planning
  • Defining the final product
  • Constructing a product checklist to communicate with the Project Board
  • Interpreting the Project Plan
Preparing for the project authorisation
  • Establishing the Business Case
  • Managing risks
  • Taking into account the importance of people in the process
Managing the Work
Completing the Work Package
  • Delegating Work Packages
  • Treating change as normal
  • Receiving completed work
Assessing progress
  • Utilising the information you have
  • Tracking work progress
Reporting accurately in an appropriate manner
  • Gathering progress data with a Checkpoint Report
  • Presenting progress to the board
Engaging people in the work
  • Creating a sense of team
  • Building motivation
  • Maintaining involvement in the project
Expecting the Unexpected
Capturing and responding to issues
  • Conducting an impact analysis
  • Making logical and defendable decisions
Preparing for an Exception Assessment
  • Getting the project ready for an adhoc stage boundary
  • Creating the Exception Report
Closing the Project
Recognising and valuing success
  • Proving success with tangible results
  • Planning for project benefit assessment
  • Preparing for the final meeting with the Project Board
Creating a legacy
  • Documenting the Lessons Learned
  • Preserving project documentation for future use
Implementing PRINCE2™ in Your Organisation
Making the case for PRINCE2™
  • Articulating advantages for your organisation
  • Creating the Business Case for PRINCE2™
Successful implementation strategies
  • Demonstrating the benefits of PRINCE2™
  • Developing a personal action plan

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