Okay, so you've learned the PRINCE2 method, and that is really great.  But PRINCE hasn't set out to cover everything you need in managing projects and one thing mostly left out, quite deliberately, is techniques.  This powerful course fills the gap and covers a range of techniques in project planning and control that fit superbly well with PRINCE2, and it also covers the PRINCE2 technique of Product Based planning in case you are not too sure about it.

    duration

This event is delivered in-company in three days.  This includes planning work on your live projects.

   suitable for

Project Managers, Team Managers, project planners and project support staff involved with the planning and control of projects.  No previous experience of the techniques is needed.

  contents

Look out ... quite a long list here and a busy but really helpful three days.

Techniques
Direct Payback
Discounted Cash Flow (DCF/NPV)
Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
Return on Investment (ROI)

Advanced topics
Identifying and measuring benefits
Avoiding benefits contamination
Characteristics and limits of DCF

Techniques
Product Flow Diagram
Product Descriptions
Product Breakdown Structure (PBS)

Advanced topics
Intermediate products on the PBS
Alternatives for grouping on the PBS
Advanced uses of the Product Flow

Techniques
Precedence (Activity) Network
Critical Path Analysis (CPA)
Gantt Chart
Resource Levelling (Smoothing)
Critical Chain

Advanced topics
Dependent float
Tracking Critical Path movements
Time lapses and fixed events
Options for contingency
Multitasking and performance
Estimating - Inspirandum 3 strand

Techniques
Risk Checklist
Ishikawa (Fishbone) Diagrams
Risk anatomy diagrams
Risk Matrix (‘Summary Profile’)
True Risk Profiling
Monte Carlo on activity networks

Advanced topics
Risks vs impacts
Probability - the Achilles Heel of risk

Techniques
S Curve
Budget, actual and deviation
Earned Value Analysis

Advanced topics
Baseline for cost control
Understanding cost deviation

Techniques
Product Checklist
Product Flow Diagrams (for control)
Earned Value Analysis (for control)

Advanced topics
Progress reports on 1 side of A4
Progress ‘dashboard’ reports

Techniques
Deltas
Advanced topics
Configuration control procedures
Status accounting

   adjusting the course

This course can be adjusted if you need only a sub-set of the techniques or if you want to add more emphasis to some of them, such as practical work in doing product led planning on your live projects.  Please talk to us about how this course can be adjusted to meet your exact needs.

NEW COURSE

This is a new course, built to meet the needs of PRINCE2 users who do not have previous project experience and who do not know the techniques that the method assumes will be used alongside.

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Techniques for PRINCE2
 course brief

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