PRINCE2® 6th Edition Foundation & Practitioner

Syllabus – Key points

PRINCE2® 

Background 

• Objectives 

• Benefits 
• Scope 
• Structure 

Project organisation 

• Organisational structure 

• Roles and responsibilities 
• The project board 
• The project manager 
• Team manager 
• Project assurance 

• Project support 
• Supplier relationships 

Planning 

• Purpose and importance 
• Components and levels of plan 

• Planning techniques 
• Product based planning 
• The steps in planning. 

Project control 

• Work package authorisation 

• Stage assessments 
• Establish project & stage tolerance 
• Checkpoints & highlight reports 
• Handling exception situations 
• Project issues 

• Project reporting 

Risk management 

• Understanding risk 
• Risk management Procedure  
• The risk register 

Quality 

• Understanding quality 
• Quality planning 
• Product descriptions 
• Quality control and quality review 

Change Control 

• Change control procedure 
• Authority levels 
• Analysing change 

Processes 

• Starting up and initiating a project 
• Directing a project 
• Managing stage boundaries 
• Controlling a stage 
• Managing product delivery 

• Closing a project 

PRINCE2® in practice 

• Tailoring PRINCE2® for different business environments including Agile 
• Scaling PRINCE2® for use with projects of different type and/or size 
• Implementing PRINCE2® in an organisation 

• Project documentation