PRINCE2® 7 Foundation and Practitioner Course

Learning outcome 1 is to analyse the application of PRINCE2 principles in context.

Here is a summary of the principles:

• Ensure continued business justification,
• Learn from experience,
• Define roles, responsibilities, and relationships,
• Mange by stages,
• Mange by exception,
• Focus on products,
• Tailor to suit the projects.

The second learning outcome is to apply effective people management in successful projects. Learning outcome 2 is divided into two parts. The first part demonstrates an understanding of how to assess whether approaches to leadership and management of both teams and change within a project are appropriate.

The second part demonstrates:

• An ability to apply the approach to the following:
  • Communications
  • People central to the method
• Apply the key management products required to support the people elements of the project:
  • Communication management approach
  • Change management approach.

The third learning outcome is to apply and tailor relevant aspects of PRINCE2 practices in context. Learning outcome 3 is divided into two parts.

The first part demonstrates an understanding of these specific elements for each PRINCE2 practice:

• Business case: benefits management approach and business case, roles and responsibilities, outputs, outcomes, benefits, and dis-benefits.
• Organizing: communication management approach, project management team structure.
• Quality: product and project product description, quality management approach, quality register, quality planning, control, and assurance.
• Plans: project plan, stage plan, exception plan, team plan, and PRINCE’2 recommended approach to planning, defining, and analysing the products.
• Risk: risk management approach, risk register, recommended roles and responsibilities, and risk management procedure.
• Change: control approach, configuration item record, issue register and report, product status account, issue, and change control procedure.
• Progress: checkpoint report, daily log, end project report, end stage report, exception report, highlight report, lessons log, work package, tolerances, and raising exceptions.

The second part of learning outcome 3 demonstrates an ability to assess the following points, in relation to each PRINCE2 process:

• The PRINCE2 principles.
• The effective management and associated techniques of the practice.
• Tailoring to the project’s environment / context.

Learning outcome 4 is to apply and tailor relevant aspects of PRINCE2 processes in context. Learning outcome 4 is divided into two parts.

The first demonstrates an understanding of the following points, in relation to each PRINCE2 process:

• The activities, inputs, and outputs
• Recommended roles and responsibilities
• How the practices may be applied

The second part demonstrates an ability to assess the following points, in relation to each PRINCE2 process:

• The environment/context
• The PRINCE2 practices
• The purpose and objectives of the process.