PRINCE2® Foundation 6th Edition

Welcome to the PRINCE2®: Foundation 6th Edition course. Whether you are a seasoned Project Manager, have only a few years of project management experience, or are just beginning your career, this course can be a great help for you. Demonstrating best practices in project management—both on the job and through professional certification—is crucial for competing in today's fast-paced and highly technical workplace. In this course, you will apply the generally recognized practices of project management acknowledged by PRINCE2®. This course will also serve to prepare you for the PRINCE2® Foundation examination.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with project management concepts and some working experience with project management are required. Experience with a specific project management software tool is not required. Basic computing skills and some experience using Microsoft® Office is desirable but not required.

Students must complete pre-work before class. The necessary files can be downloaded from the CHOICE platform Files tab and is saved under the Pre-course Work folder within the data files.

Target Audience

This course is designed for those seeking to achieve the PRINCE2® Foundation certificate,which is an important and valuable qualification,demonstrating increasingly higher levels of competence. This level aims to measure whether a candidate could act as an informed member of a project management team on a project using the PRINCE2® method,within an environment supporting PRINCE2®. To this end they need to show they understand the principles and terminology of the method. It is also the starting point of providing a higher-level qualification.This course is governed by the PRINCE2® Examination Syllabus,which details the topics which must be covered by courses accredited to provide training and prepare candidates for the examinations in PRINCE2®.You may well be very concerned about the examination(s),but you will get some practice before the real thing.

Course Objectives

To help you understand PRINCE2® in respect of its:

• Principles, processes, themes, techniques, and roles for successful project management.
• Management products that are input and output of the processes.

So that you may:

• Attempt the PRINCE2® Foundation exam with confidence.
• Begin to apply the method, tailoring it to your project's needs.