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Foundation

The PRINCE2 Foundation course teaches the seven principles, seven themes, and seven processes of the PRINCE2 method, plus tailoring, roles, and management products, enabling learners to grasp core project governance concepts.

Who Should Take This

Project coordinators, junior project managers, and aspiring project management professionals who have limited experience with formal methodologies should enroll. They seek to obtain PRINCE2 Foundation certification to validate their understanding of the method’s principles, themes, processes, and governance artifacts, and to prepare for further PRINCE2 qualifications.

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Course Outline

66 learning goals

1 PRINCE2 Principles

1 topic

The Seven Principles

Describe the continued business justification principle and explain how it ensures ongoing viability of a project throughout its lifecycle
Identify how the learn from experience principle captures and applies lessons from previous projects to improve current and future project performance
Describe the defined roles and responsibilities principle and explain the three primary project interests: business, user, and supplier
Explain the manage by stages principle and describe how management stages provide control points for reviewing progress and making go/no-go decisions
Describe the manage by exception principle and explain how tolerances for time, cost, quality, scope, risk, and benefit enable delegation of authority
Identify the focus on products principle and explain how product descriptions define quality expectations and acceptance criteria
Describe the tailor to suit the project environment principle and identify factors that influence how PRINCE2 is adapted for different project contexts
Compare the seven PRINCE2 principles and analyze how they collectively provide a framework for effective project governance

2 PRINCE2 Themes

7 topics

Business Case Theme

Describe the purpose and content of a business case including benefits, costs, risks, and timescales that justify project investment
Explain the development path of a business case from outline to detailed to post-project verification of benefits realization
Identify the roles responsible for creating, maintaining, and approving the business case throughout the project lifecycle
Analyze a business case scenario and determine whether the project remains justified at each decision point based on costs, benefits, and risk changes

Organization Theme

Describe the PRINCE2 project management team structure including project board, project manager, team manager, and project assurance roles
Identify the responsibilities of executive, senior user, and senior supplier roles on the project board and explain how they represent project interests
Explain the change authority role and describe how it delegates decision-making for handling requests for change within defined tolerances
Describe stakeholder engagement strategies and explain how the communication management approach ensures stakeholders receive appropriate information at the right time

Quality Theme

Describe the quality theme and differentiate between project quality and product quality in the PRINCE2 framework
Explain the quality management approach including quality planning, quality control, and quality assurance activities
Describe the purpose and structure of a product description and explain how quality criteria and quality tolerances define acceptance standards
Analyze quality inspection results and recommend corrective actions when products fail to meet defined quality criteria and acceptance methods

Plans Theme

Describe the plans theme and identify the three levels of plan in PRINCE2: project plan, stage plan, and team plan
Explain the PRINCE2 approach to planning including product-based planning technique with product breakdown structure and product flow diagram
Describe exception plans and explain when they are created and how they replace the remainder of the current stage plan or project plan
Describe the relationship between estimating techniques, scheduling, and resource planning in the PRINCE2 planning approach

Risk Theme

Describe the risk management approach and identify the five risk management steps: identify, assess, plan, implement, and communicate
Identify risk response categories for threats (avoid, reduce, transfer, accept, share) and opportunities (exploit, enhance, share, accept, reject)
Apply the risk register to record identified risks with probability, impact, proximity, and planned risk responses for a given project scenario

Change Theme

Describe the change theme and explain the five types of issue: request for change, off-specification, problem or concern, question, and statement
Explain the issue and change control procedure including capture, examine, propose, decide, and implement steps
Describe how configuration management supports change control by tracking and protecting project products throughout their lifecycle
Describe the role of a change budget in managing requests for change and explain how it provides financial tolerance for approved changes

Progress Theme

Describe the progress theme and explain how tolerances, management stages, and reporting mechanisms provide project control
Identify the key progress reports in PRINCE2 including highlight reports, checkpoint reports, end stage reports, and end project reports
Explain exception reporting and the escalation process when tolerances are forecast to be exceeded at stage or project level

3 PRINCE2 Processes

7 topics

Starting up a Project

Describe the purpose and objectives of the Starting up a Project process and identify its key activities including appointing the project board and preparing the project brief
Explain the relationship between the project mandate, project brief, and initiation stage plan as outputs of the Starting up a Project process

Directing a Project

Describe the purpose of the Directing a Project process and identify the five key decisions the project board makes: authorize initiation, authorize project, authorize stage, give ad hoc direction, and authorize closure
Explain how the project board exercises control through exception management and periodic decision points without managing day-to-day activities

Initiating a Project

Describe the purpose and activities of the Initiating a Project process including creating the project initiation documentation
Identify the management products created during initiation including project plan, risk management approach, quality management approach, communication management approach, and change control approach
Explain how the project initiation documentation aggregates all management approaches and baselines to define the complete project management framework

Controlling a Stage

Describe the purpose of the Controlling a Stage process and identify how the project manager authorizes work packages, monitors progress, and manages issues
Explain how work packages define the work to be done, including product descriptions, constraints, tolerances, and reporting arrangements between project manager and team manager
Analyze the corrective actions available to a project manager when stage tolerances are threatened including replanning, escalating, and requesting exception plans
Describe how the project manager reviews and reports stage status through highlight reports and checkpoint reports during stage execution

Managing Product Delivery

Describe the purpose of the Managing Product Delivery process and explain how team managers accept, execute, and deliver work packages
Explain the interface between Controlling a Stage and Managing Product Delivery through work package authorization and checkpoint reporting

Managing a Stage Boundary

Describe the purpose and activities of the Managing a Stage Boundary process including preparing the next stage plan and updating the business case
Explain when and why the Managing a Stage Boundary process produces an exception plan instead of the next stage plan

Closing a Project

Describe the purpose and activities of the Closing a Project process including evaluating project performance and preparing end project report and lessons report
Explain the difference between planned closure and premature closure and identify the project board's role in authorizing project closure

4 Tailoring, Roles, and Management Products

3 topics

Tailoring PRINCE2

Identify factors that influence how PRINCE2 should be tailored including project complexity, organizational maturity, risk level, and team size
Explain how to tailor PRINCE2 for a simple project by combining roles, reducing documentation, and adjusting stage structure while maintaining the seven principles
Describe how PRINCE2 integrates with agile delivery approaches by using time-boxed stages and iterative product delivery within the PRINCE2 process framework
Analyze the risks of over-tailoring and under-tailoring PRINCE2 and evaluate how to achieve an appropriate balance for a given project environment

Roles and Responsibilities

Describe the responsibilities of the project manager in PRINCE2 including day-to-day management, planning, reporting, and issue resolution
Explain the project support role and describe how it assists the project manager with administrative tasks, configuration management, and tool support
Describe the project assurance role and explain how it provides independent oversight of business, user, and supplier interests on behalf of the project board
Compare and contrast the roles of team manager and project manager in terms of authority, accountability, and reporting relationships

Management Products

List the baseline management products in PRINCE2 and describe the purpose of the project initiation documentation, project plan, and stage plans
Identify the key records and reports in PRINCE2 including daily log, lessons log, risk register, issue register, and quality register
Explain how management products support decision-making and project control by providing structured information to stakeholders at appropriate levels
Analyze which management products are essential versus optional for different project scales and describe how documentation can be appropriately scaled

5 PRINCE2 Integration