PRINCE2™: Achieving Practitioner

• Pass the Foundation and Practitioner professional certification exams
• Understand in detail the relationship of the PRINCE2 processes, components and techniques
• Learn how to manage projects using the PRINCE2 method
• Understand how to tailor PRINCE2 to different environments
• Ensure projects are viable and worthwhile through controlled start-up and initiation with clearly defined; scope, roles and risk levels
• Manage project quality expectations and define acceptance criteria for project sign off
• Design a project management team
• Effectively monitor and control projects using stages and tolerance
• Gain practical experience of being able to develop key PRINCE2 documents including business case, project initiation document, project brief and organisation structures
• Ensure your projects deliver business benefit using a proven management method
• Achieve management by exception and avoid unnecessary meetings

PRINCE2 is a structured project management method that provides you with the techniques, principles and framework you need to achieve a defined business case by effectively managing projects in a controlled and predictable way. It can be used to manage any project regardless of business sector or scale and has been developed and proven on a vast number of projects. PRINCE2 is the most widely sought after project management certification in the UK.

This course provides an intensive and in-depth approach that not only gives you the best possible chance of passing the exam, but will enable you to successfully apply the method as well.

The average UK PRINCE2 practitioner pass rate varies between 60% and 65%. Adaptive Training instructors have achieved an average practitioner pass rate of 90% to date.

This PRINCE2 course conforms to the syllabus set down by APMG (the examinations administration body) for delegates wishing to gain the PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner certification. In other words, all the material necessary to pass the exam will be covered! Not only this, but the course contains numerous examples of how to use PRINCE2 in practice.

The course comprises instructor led training, exercises, and workshops during classroom hours (typically 9am-5pm) but also at least two hours of instructor directed self-study and exam preparation each evening.

Our course structure is unique in that, right from the morning of the first day, you are preparing not only for the Foundation exam but also the Practitioner exam as well.

By the end of the third day you will have covered between 10 and 12 Practitioner question scenarios, before your intensive exam preparation day commences on the Thursday. Naturally you will also be comprehensively prepared for your Foundation exam - we have never had a candidate fail their Foundation exam.

During the course there are numerous workshops and individual exercises that enable you to apply the PRINCE2 method and continuously reinforce and strengthen your learning. Each exercise and workshop is followed by a full feedback and de-brief session to ensure all your questions and concerns are dealt with and to ensure that you get the most out of each exercise. A comprehensive set of example Practitioner exam question scenarios will also be provided; these are accompanied by full model answers and suggested marking schemes.

Exercises on this course are primarily individual rather than group exercises so that everyone can prove to themselves that they have fully understood the PRINCE2 method. This approach ensures that any questions or misunderstandings are immediately brought to light and can then be discussed with your fully qualified PRINCE2 instructor, giving you the best chance of passing the exam.

Some of the course exercises, building towards the completion of the Practitioner Exam and the practical application of the method, are listed below.

• Determining an appropriate project organisation structure
• Developing a project business case
• Developing a product breakdown structure to assist planning
• Determining an appropriate set of project controls, including structuring the project into stages
• Developing a workpackage specification and supporting product descriptions
• Undertaking a project risk analysis and planning risk mitigation
• Reviewing and critiquing a project quality plan and configuration management plan

• Full written model answers that systematically cover the entire PRINCE2 method
• Comprehensive illustrative examples of key PRINCE2 deliverables

The PRINCE2: Achieving Practitioner course is relevant to all those that want a structured approach to managing projects, those that want to achieve the valuable recognition of the PRINCE2 practitioner qualification and those who want a detailed understanding of the application of the PRINCE2 method.

The course is suitable for candidates who want to tailor, introduce and manage projects using PRINCE2; this includes those who are involved in supporting the management of projects. It's also suitable for candidates who aspire to manage projects and for those who want to start with a more in-depth knowledge of the method than they would get from doing only the Foundation level qualification.

Some project management experience or awareness is recommended, however this need not necessarily be with PRINCE2. If you feel this is more depth than you need, you may find our PRINCE2: Achieving Foundation course more appropriate.

Delegates will be provided pre-course reading material 10 days prior to attending the course. The materials contain a suggested reading and study schedule that counts you down to the event. Your chance of passing the Foundation and Practitioner exams will be significantly improved by completing the pre-course reading and study. All pre-course reading material needs to be completed prior to the first day of the course - once the course has begun the instructor will allocate at least two hours of additional self-directed study each evening - there will be no time to complete the pre-course reading once the course has started.

Foundation is the first of the two PRINCE2 Examinations you are required to pass to become a PRINCE2 Practitioner. The exam is a multiple-choice, closed-book exam of one hour duration. 38 correct answers from 75 questions are required to pass.

Foundation measures whether a candidate could act as an informed member of a project management team using the PRINCE2 method. 

Specifically, candidates must be able to:

• Describe the purpose and major content of all roles, the eight components, the eight processes and the sub-processes, and the techniques.
• State which management products are input to, and output from the eight 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.

Practitioner is the second of the two PRINCE2 Examinations you are required to pass to become a PRINCE2 Practitioner. This level measures whether a candidate would be able to apply PRINCE2 to the running and managing of a project.

To this end they need to have passed the Foundation qualification, and show that they can apply and tune PRINCE2 to address the needs and problems of specific project scenarios. Specifically, candidates must be able to:

• Produce detailed explanations of all processes, components and techniques, and worked examples of all PRINCE2 products as they might be applied to address the particular circumstances of a given project scenario.
• Show they understand the relationships between processes, components, techniques and PRINCE2 products and can apply this understanding.
• Demonstrate that they understand the reasons behind the processes, components and techniques of PRINCE2, and that they understand the principles underpinning these elements.
• Demonstrate their ability to tune PRINCE2 to different project circumstances.

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