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PRINCE2 7th Edition Masterclass Course Overview
Each of these Video Modules comes complete with multiple video lessons, accompanying detailed Handbook plus Workshop Exercises and unique EXAM CRAM and EXAM BOOST tools focused for EACH Module:
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Module 1: Discovering PRINCE2 Structure, Benefits and Context
This is an important module as it sets out the overall framework of PRINCE2. Since its first launch in 1996, each iteration of PRINCE2 has provided a universal project management method. It has reflected project management practice of the time; it has also pushed the boundaries of best practice.
Module 1 sets out the overall framework of PRINCE2. You get 9 video lessons plus the PRINCE2 Process and Management Products Roadmap.
Crucially, you will learn how the main components of the PRINCE2 model fit together and the relationships these have with other parts of the methodology. It is also imperative you grasp PRINCE2 terminology, which will be significant for your exams. You will learn and understand:
- PRINCE2 Masterclass objectives
- New for PRINCE2 7th Edition
- Features and benefits of PRINCE2
- The FIVE integrated elements
- Causes of project failure
- PRINCE2 processes
- The definition of a PRINCE2 project
- Project characteristics
- Project management definition
- Project challenges
- Project performance management
- Project delivery methods
- Project layers and tolerances
- Project context
- The PRINCE2 practices and application
- Sustainability management
- Project scale
- PRINCE2 Process and Management Products Roadmap
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Module 2: Overview of PRINCE2 principles and tailoring
This module is jam-packed with 8 video lessons. Here you will learn how to unlock the fundamental framework that is the cornerstone of the Method:
- PRINCE2 Masterclass objectives
- New for PRINCE2 7th Edition
- Features and benefits of PRINCE2
- The FIVE integrated elements
- Causes of project failure
- PRINCE2 processes
- The definition of a PRINCE2 project
- Project characteristics
- Project management definition
- Project challenges
- Project performance management
- Project delivery methods
- Project layers and tolerances
- Project context
- The PRINCE2 practices and application
- Sustainability management
- Project scale
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Module 3: Making Sense of People and Ecosystems
This module is jam-packed with 8 video lessons
You will learn and understand:
- Baseline management products
- People and ecosystems
- Leading successful change
- Change management approach
- Stakeholders
- Projects interests
- Project culture
- Leading successful teams
- Reporting lines
- Building effective teams
- Project communication
- Collocated and remote teams
- Reporting environment
- The communication approach
- People and PRINCE2 principles
- People & PRINCE2 practices & processes
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Module 4: Connecting With the PRINCE2 Starting Up a Project Process
Starting Up a Project is key to all remaining processes as it lays the foundational terms of reference upon which they lay. In this module there are 6 video lessons, covering the 6 activities within the PRINCE2 Starting Up a Project process. You will learn and understand:
- The PRINCE2 Journey
- Starting up a project context
- Starting up a project inputs-output
- The project mandate
- The project log
- Appoint the executive and project manager
- Assess previous lessons
- Appoint the project management team
- Prepare the outline business case
- Select the project approach
- Assemble the project brief
- Plan the initiation stage
- The project brief contents
- The project product description
- The initiation stage plan
- Project initiation trigger
- Tailoring and appointing roles in SU
- Application of practices to SU
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Module 5: Focus on Applying and Tailoring the PRINCE2 Organizing Practice
Here, you learn who gets involved and which roles and responsibilities they are given.
In this module there are 13 video lessons covering The Organizing Practice.
You will learn and understand:
- Applying the PRINCE2 practices
- Successful project teams
- The organizing practice
- Project management team structure
- Business project interests
- User project interests
- Supplier project interests
- Project board roles and responsibilities
- Project assurance
- The four organizational layers
- Project manager and team manager roles and responsibilities
- The work breakdown structure
- Organizational design and development technique
- Organizational ecosystem
- Manage changes to the project ecosystem
- Delivery models and methods
- The RACI Chart
- Applying the organizational context
- Sustainability
- Project scale
- Organizing practice principle relationships
- Organizing practice key roles
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Module 6: Crafting and Tailoring the Business Case Practice
In this module there are 11 video lessons, which cover the PRINCE2 Business Case and Benefits Management Approach documents including their content and structure.
So this practice sets up a series of mechanisms to ensure the project is and remains viable, desirable and achievable.
You will learn and understand:
- The business case learning outcomes
- The business case practice
- Benefits and business justification
- Business case lifecycle
- The benefits lifecycle
- Investment appraisal techniques
- Applying the Business Case practice
- Management products
- Business Case practice roles
- Business case practice principles
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Module 7: Harnessing and Tailoring the Initiating a Project Process
The main focus here is on planning the project, and it covers the activities within the Initiating a Project process, where there are 8 video lessons taking you through the purpose and objectives of this process.
You will learn and understand:
- Initiating a project purpose
- Initiating a project process
- Initiating a project objective
- Initiating a project context
- Process inputs and outputs
- Project initiation documentation
- Agree the tailoring requirements
- Agree the management approaches
- Establish project controls
- Prepare the project plan
- Prepare the full business case
- Assemble the PID
- Request project authorization
- Applying the IP process
- IP roles and responsibilities (RACI)
- Practices and their IP application
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Module 8: Unearthing and tailoring the PRINCE2 Risk Practice
One of the challenges when managing a project is uncertainty - it is vital to manage risk proactively and improve the projects’ ability to succeed.
Module 8 of our PRINCE2 Masterclass covers The PRINCE2 Risk Practice.
In this module there are 15 video lessons, which include the Risk Management Approach document, the risk management procedure, the Risk Register, and the various risk tools and techniques. You will learn and understand:
- The risk practice purpose
- Threats and opportunities
- Risk management guidance
- Risk concepts & definitions
- Risk planning
- Risk analysis
- Threat responses
- Opportunity responses
- Risk roles
- Risk culture and bias
- Risk identification
- Risk planning
- Risk implementation
- Risk communication
- Risk techniques
- Cause and effect
- PESTLE & SWOT analysis
- Risk prompt lists
- Risk breakdown structure
- Pre-mortem
- Swiss cheese model
- Use of data
- Risk organizational context
- Risk commercial context
- Risk delivery method
- Sustainability and risk
- Risk practice principles
- Risk management approach
- Risk register
- Risk practice roles
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Module 9: Mobilizing and tailoring the PRINCE2 Quality Practice
You will learn how to describe an approach that ensures quality products are created on your project.
In module 9 there are 6 video lessons totalling 104 minutes which provide you with the purpose and objectives of The Quality Practice.
You will be introduced to quality planning and control, the quality audit trail and the contents and use of the Project Product Description and Product Descriptions, in particular the use of the customers quality expectations and acceptance criteria.
Importantly, you learn the purpose and objectives for quality, along with the steps of the formal quality review. You will learn and understand:
- The PRINCE2 quality method
- Quality terminology and definitions
- Product-based quality approach
- Quality planning
- Users' quality expectations
- Quality tolerances
- Product descriptions
- The product register
- Quality responsibilities
- Quality control
- The quality register
- Quality assurance
- The quality management technique
- Functional requirements
- Non-functional requirements
- The quality management approach
- Controlling quality
- Supporting quality techniques
- Applying quality
- Quality delivery methods
- Quality sustainability
- Quality scale
- Quality practice roles
- Quality practice principles
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Module 10: Figuring Out the PRINCE2 Product-based planning Technique
You must use this technique if your project claims to be using the PRINCE2 Method - so it is vital you understand the steps and purpose.
In module 10 there are 8 video lessons covering the PRINCE2 Product-based Planning Technique.
You will be introduced to the four steps to this technique which are the creation of the Project Product Description, the Product Breakdown Structure (PBS), the Product Descriptions, and the Product Flow Diagram (PFD). You will learn and understand:
- The product-based planning technique
- The PRINCE2 product focus
- Defining and analysing the products
- Writing the project product description
- Creating a product breakdown structure
- Writing product descriptions
- Creating a product flow diagram
- Organizing work packages
- Product dependencies
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Module 11: Making Sense of the PRINCE2 Plans Practice plus how Tailor the application of Plans
This module crucially, will help you forecast the resources and activities needed to create the project products. There are 14 video lessons in this module providing you with an introduction and structure of the course Modules.
You will be introduced to the purpose and objectives of this Practice, and its application to create the Project Plan, Stage Plans, Team Plans and Exception Plans.
You will learn and understand:
- Plan purpose and development
- Using plans as a control
- Planning horizon
- Plan levels
- The project plan
- Management by stages
- Stage type and length
- The stage plan
- The team plan
- The exception plan
- Stages and work packages
- Tolerances in planning
- Product-based planning
- Preparing estimates
- Preparing a schedule
- Preparing a budget
- Analysing risks
- Documenting the plan
- Prioritizing in plans
- Project scheduling
- Critical path and critical chain
- Estimating techniques
- Organizational context
- Commercial context
- Plan delivery methods
- Plan sustainability
- Plan scale
- Plan management product
- Plans practice key roles
- Relationships with principles
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Module 12: Connecting With and Tailoring the PRINCE2 Directing a Project Process
Connecting With and Tailoring the PRINCE2 Directing A Project Process
This process is used by the Project Board to make key decisions about the project, this process spans the entire PRINCE2 process model.
Here, there are 7 video lessons covering the PRINCE2 Directing a Project process.
You will be introduced to the activities covering the purpose, context plus the project board roles and responsibilities, finishing off with the various tailoring aspects of the Directing a Project process
You will learn and understand:
How to explore and understand the purpose and objectives of the directing a project process
Understand the directing a project context
Understand the project board's role in different stages of a project
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Module 13: Building and tailoring the PRINCE2 Controlling a Stage process
The project manager is responsible for day-to-day management of the project - and this is the process that is used. In this module there are 9 video lessons which provide you the purpose and objectives of the Controlling a Stage process, used by the Project Manager.
This process controls specialist delivery work, reports on stage progress, deals with risks and issues, and decides what to do next within the stage.
This will cover the eight activities and the various monitoring, control, and reporting aspects of the Project Managers day-to-day management with each PRINCE2 management stage. It will finish off with how to tailor this process for different project sizes, programmes and within an Agile environment.
You will learn and understand:
- The CS and MP fit
- Controlling a stage purpose
- Controlling a stage objectives
- Controlling a stage simplified
- Controlling a stage process
- Authorise a work package
- Receive completed work package
- Evaluate work package status
- Capture issues and risks
- Take corrective action
- Evaluate stage status
- Report highlights
- Escalate issues and risks
- Controlling a stage RACI
- CS process tailoring
- Practices application to CS
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Module 14: Connecting With and Tailoring the Managing Product Delivery Process
This process controls the delivery of the specialist work. Module 14 of our PRINCE2 Masterclass covering The Managing Product Delivery process, where there are 8 video lessons, describing the purpose and objectives of this process covering the roles of the Team Manager and the specialist team members themselves.
Here, I describe the content and use of the Work Package, Product Descriptions, and the Checkpoint Report, concluding with tailoring the process and its use within an Agile environment.
You will learn and understand:
- The project manager and team manager
- Managing product delivery process
- Managing product delivery purpose
- Managing product delivery objectives
- Controlling a stage and managing product delivery
- Managing product delivery overview
- Managing product delivery inputs and outputs
- Accept a work package
- Execute a work package
- Evaluate a work package
- Notify work package completion
- The work package description
- Managing product delivery RACI
- Practices and their application to managing product delivery
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Module 15: Determining and Tailoring of the PRINCE2 Managing a Stage Boundary Process
In this module there are 7 video lessons covering The Managing a Stage Boundary process.
You will be introduced to the purpose and objectives of this PRINCE2 process, along with a description of each of the 5 activities covering its dual use as a process to prepare for an end stage assessment or an exception assessment.
You will learn and understand:
- review the success of the current stage
- approve the next stage plan
- review the updated project plan
- confirm continued business justification and acceptability of the risks
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Module 16: Researching and tailoring the PRINCE2 Issues Practice
Here you will learn how to identify, assess, and control, potential and approved changes to the project. In this module there are 13 video lessons covering the purpose and objectives of the practice.
You will be introduced to the use of PRINCE2 Issues including Requests for change and Off Specifications, the issue and change control steps, configuration management and the Issue Register. In addition, how to tailor this Theme depending upon the project type and its environment.
You will learn and understand:
- How to explore and understand the issues practice purpose
- How to understand types of issues
- How to explain the issue management approach
- How to understand the issue management procedure
- Familiarity with management products supporting the issues practice
- Understand the PRINCE2 Change Technique
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Module 17: Reflecting and Tailoring of the PRINCE2 Progress Practice
Here, you must focus on controlling the project so that it ultimately, it achieves its objectives. In this module there are 19 video lessons covering the steps to progress control, tolerances, exceptions, and the Project Board and Project Manager controls.
You will learn and understand:
- progress control and management
- management levels and tolerances
- tolerance layers
- types of progress control
- reviewing progress and lessons
- reporting progress and lessons
- capturing lessons and forecasting
- forecasting progress and exceptions
- exception levels
- data and systems
- dashboards and standups
- earned value management
- peer reviews
- burn charts
- retrospectives
- Kanban
- applying progress practice
- delivery methods
- sustainability and scale
- progress management products
- progress key roles
- progress practice principles
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Module 18: Performing Controlled Shut down and Tailoring of the PRINCE2 Closing a Project Process
Closing a Project provides a fixed point in time at which acceptance of the main outputs (products) of the project can be confirmed. In this module there are 6 video lessons covering the five activities needed for the controlled shut down of any PRINCE2 project.
I cover the dual purpose of this process - used for a natural close and for a premature close. This Module includes how to tailor this process and its use within an Agile environment.
You will learn and understand:
- The closing a project purpose
- The closing a project objectives
- The closing a project context
- The prepare planned closure activity
- The prepare premature closure activity
- The confirm project acceptance activity
- The evaluate the project activity
- The request project closure activity
- Tailoring roles in closing a project
- Closing a project accountability and responsibility
- Practice application to closing a project
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