Duration
5 Days
Course Objectives
Expect to learn:
- Align projects to the strategy
- Manage the business case and quantify performance
- Gain stakeholder buy-in and engage senuor personnel in the change process
- Maintain focus in a changing environment
- Manage risk, change and resources more effectively.
Audience
- Programme managers
- Programme directors
- Business managers involved in a programme
- Project managers who need to better understand programmes
- Programme / project office managers
- Consultants.
Course Syllabus
Programmes & projects
- Setting the scene
- Programme environment
- Programme types & scaling
- Mandate, programme brief
- Vision and blueprint.
Stakeholder management
- Stakeholder analysis
- Communication plan and channels.
Defining a programme
- Business strategy flow
- Programme business case
- Financial plan
- Responsibilities & decisions
- Quality management.
Issue and risk management
Benefits Management
- Definition & process
- Direct & indirect benefits
- Benefits management.
Plan and establish
- Programme plan; tranches
- Dependencies and the programme plan.
Organisation - programme management and linked roles
Quality and configuration management
- Quality management
- Responsibilities
- Change control
- Configuration management.
Managing project portfolios
Delivering benefits & closing a programme.
Related Courses
Refer to other PRINCE2 and MSP training courses
Prerequisites
No formal pre-requisites.
We recommend that delegates have a sound understanding of project management and a basic understanding of business change.
Examinations
Foundation
closed-book; forty minutes for fifty multiple-choice questions; 50% to pass.
Practitioner
closed book; objective examination with nine questions in two hours; 50% to pass.