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This dynamic program is designed for seasoned project managers and professionals looking to elevate their project management skills to the next level. Through a combination of advanced techniques, real-world case studies, and hands-on exercises, this course will empower you to successfully lead complex projects, drive innovation, and achieve exceptional results. Course Highlights: Master advanced project planning and execution strategies. Navigate complex stakeholder dynamics with confidence. Develop expertise in risk management and mitigation. Harness cutting-edge project management tools and software. Learn to lead high-performing project teams. Explore techniques for project portfolio management. Drive innovation and adaptability within your projects. Achieve successful project delivery on time and within budget. Who Should Attend: Experienced project managers seeking to enhance their skills. Project management professionals aiming to achieve PMP or PMI-ACP certification. Team leaders and executives responsible for project outcomes. Individuals looking to take on larger, more complex projects. Anyone committed to advancing their project management career. Join us in this immersive and challenging journey towards becoming an advanced project management expert. Elevate your capabilities, expand your career opportunities, and position yourself as a leader in the world of project management. We look forward to guiding you on this transformative learning experience!

Are you looking to improve your current abilities or make a career move? Our unique Project Management Course might help you get there! Expand your expertise with high-quality training - study Project Management and get an expertly designed, great-value training experience. Learn from industry professionals and quickly equip yourself with the specific knowledge and skills you need to excel in your chosen career through the Project Management online training course. With this comprehensive Project Management course, you can achieve your dreams and train for your ideal career. The Project Management course provides students with an in-depth learning experience that they can work through at their own pace to enhance their career development. This Project Management training can help you to accomplish your ambitions and prepare you for a meaningful career. So, join the Project Management course today - gear up with the essential skills to set yourself up for excellence! After completion of the Project Management training program, you will be able to: Define the related terminologies Know the importance of the PMBOK and PMI Learn the 5 process groups and 10 knowledge areas by PMI Comprehend the work activity breakdown structure Understand how to write goals and requirements with deliverables Learn the triple constraint Make an effective schedule, risk management, and communication plan Create a network diagram and RACI chart Know how to perform fundamental management tasks and guarantee all documents are complete before the deadline Start your learning journey straight away with this Project Management course and take a step toward a brighter future! Why Prefer this Project Management Course? Opportunity to earn a certificate that is accredited by CPDQS. Get a free student ID card! (£10 postal charge will be applicable for international delivery). Innovative and engaging content. Free assessments. 24/7 tutor support. *** Course Curriculum *** Introduction Module 01: Key Concepts (I) Module 02: Key Concepts (II) Module 03: Initiation (I)Module 04: Initiation (II) Module 05: Planning (I) Module 06: Planning (II) Module 07: Planning Tools Module 08: Executing the Project Module 09: Maintaining and Controlling the Project Module 10: Closing Out Assessment Process Once you have completed all the Project Management modules, your skills and knowledge will be tested with an automated multiple-choice assessment. You will then receive instant results to let you know if you have successfully passed the Project Management course. CPD 10 CPD hours / points Accredited by CPD Quality Standards Who is this course for? This Project Management course is for you if you: Want to have a deeper insight into Project Management. Actively working in Project Management and am interested in exploring it a bit further. Are you a student pursuing a relevant field of study? Seeking employment in the Project Management field. Requirements You will not need any prior background or expertise. All you need to take this Project Management is - A smart device. A secure internet connection. Being over the age of 16. And a strong drive for learning and literacy. Career path Project Management is an important skills for many job sectors such as: Project assistant Project co-ordinator Project consultant Project Manager Certificates CPD Accredited Certificate Digital certificate - £10 CPD Accredited Certificate Hard copy certificate - £28 If you are an international student, then you have to pay an additional 10 GBP as an international delivery charge.

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PRINCE2® Foundation: In-House Training Projects fail for a variety of reasons including poor planning, lack of defined quality criteria, poor understanding of the business drivers, inadequate control, and lack of senior management involvement in other words, lack of a structured best practice approach to project delivery. PRINCE2® (6th Edition is the current version) is a structured, process-based approach to project management providing a methodology which can be easily tailored and scaled to suit all types of projects. It is the de facto standard for project management in the UK Government and is used extensively in more than 150 countries worldwide with in excess of 20,000 organizations already benefiting from its powerful approach. It can be used easily in combination with PMI®'s PMBOK® Guideto provide a robust project management methodology, or to augment an existing PMBOK®-based methodology with additional rigor around areas such as Quality, Organization, and Benefits Realization. The goals of this course are to provide participants with a thorough grounding in PRINCE2® and its benefits and to prepare them to sit the Foundation exam. What you will Learn You'll learn how to: Identify the benefits and principles underlying a structured approach to project management Define the PRINCE2® method in depth, including the principles, themes, and processes Prepare and practice for the Foundation exam Getting Started Introductions Course structure Course goals and objectives Overview of the PRINCE2® Foundation exam PRINCE2® Introduction Introducing PRINCE2® The structure of PRINCE2® What PRINCE2® does not provide What makes a project a 'PRINCE2® project'? Project Management with PRINCE2® Defining a project Managing a project Controlling the variables The Project Manager's work PRINCE2 Principles PRINCE2® Principles The Seven Principles Tailoring and Adopting PRINCE2® Defining tailoring Defining embedding What can be tailored? Who is responsible for tailoring? Introduction to the PRINCE2® Themes What is a PRINCE2® Theme? What are the PRINCE2® Themes? Tailoring the themes Format of the theme chapters Business Case Need for a business case Elements of a business case How a business case is developed Managing Benefits Organization Need for a special type of organization PRINCE2® organization structure Roles in a PRINCE2® project Combining roles Quality Relevance of quality to project work Quality, quality control, and quality assurance Quality management approach and the quality register Who is responsible for quality? Plans Need for plans and their hierarchy Approach to planning Content of a PRINCE2® plan Product-based planning Risk The need to manage risks What is a risk? Risk and continued business justification A risk management option Change Change is inevitable Different types of change Baselines and configuration management Issue and change control in PRINCE2® Progress Controlling a PRINCE2® project The application of tolerance Types of control Raising exceptions Introduction to Processes Processes and the project lifecycle The PRINCE2® journey Structure of the process chapters Tailoring the processes Starting up a Project Appointing people to the PRINCE2® roles Establishing some baselines Should we go further with this work? Planning for initiation Directing a Project Should we start / continue the project? Responding to internal / external influences Should we close this project? Initiating a Project Establishing the project's approaches Creating the project plan Refining the business case Assembling the PID Controlling a Stage Authorizing and reviewing work Monitoring and reporting Handling non-planned situations Triggering the next process Managing Product Delivery Accepting work from the Project Manager Getting the work done by the team Routine and non-routine reporting Handing back the completed work Managing a Stage Boundary Taking stock of what we have done Updating the PID Consider the options for continuing / stopping Producing exception plans Closing a Project PRINCE2® at the end of a project Transition of product to operational use How well did we do? Tying up all the loose ends

PRINCE2® Foundation Projects fail for a variety of reasons including poor planning, lack of defined quality criteria, poor understanding of the business drivers, inadequate control, and lack of senior management involvement in other words, lack of a structured best practice approach to project delivery. PRINCE2® (6th Edition is the current version) is a structured, process-based approach to project management providing a methodology which can be easily tailored and scaled to suit all types of projects. It is the de facto standard for project management in the UK Government and is used extensively in more than 150 countries worldwide with in excess of 20,000 organizations already benefiting from its powerful approach. It can be used easily in combination with PMI®'s PMBOK® Guideto provide a robust project management methodology, or to augment an existing PMBOK®-based methodology with additional rigor around areas such as Quality, Organization, and Benefits Realization. The goals of this course are to provide participants with a thorough grounding in PRINCE2® and its benefits and to prepare them to sit the Foundation exam. What you will Learn You'll learn how to: Identify the benefits and principles underlying a structured approach to project management Define the PRINCE2® method in depth, including the principles, themes, and processes Prepare and practice for the Foundation exam Getting Started Introductions Course structure Course goals and objectives Overview of the PRINCE2® Foundation exam PRINCE2® Introduction Introducing PRINCE2® The structure of PRINCE2® What PRINCE2® does not provide What makes a project a 'PRINCE2® project'? Project Management with PRINCE2® Defining a project Managing a project Controlling the variables The Project Manager's work PRINCE2 Principles PRINCE2® Principles The Seven Principles Tailoring and Adopting PRINCE2® Defining tailoring Defining embedding What can be tailored? Who is responsible for tailoring? Introduction to the PRINCE2® Themes What is a PRINCE2® Theme? What are the PRINCE2® Themes? Tailoring the themes Format of the theme chapters Business Case Need for a business case Elements of a business case How a business case is developed Managing Benefits Organization Need for a special type of organization PRINCE2® organization structure Roles in a PRINCE2® project Combining roles Quality Relevance of quality to project work Quality, quality control, and quality assurance Quality management approach and the quality register Who is responsible for quality? Plans Need for plans and their hierarchy Approach to planning Content of a PRINCE2® plan Product-based planning Risk The need to manage risks What is a risk? Risk and continued business justification A risk management option Change Change is inevitable Different types of change Baselines and configuration management Issue and change control in PRINCE2® Progress Controlling a PRINCE2® project The application of tolerance Types of control Raising exceptions Introduction to Processes Processes and the project lifecycle The PRINCE2® journey Structure of the process chapters Tailoring the processes Starting up a Project Appointing people to the PRINCE2® roles Establishing some baselines Should we go further with this work? Planning for initiation Directing a Project Should we start / continue the project? Responding to internal / external influences Should we close this project? Initiating a Project Establishing the project's approaches Creating the project plan Refining the business case Assembling the PID Controlling a Stage Authorizing and reviewing work Monitoring and reporting Handling non-planned situations Triggering the next process Managing Product Delivery Accepting work from the Project Manager Getting the work done by the team Routine and non-routine reporting Handing back the completed work Managing a Stage Boundary Taking stock of what we have done Updating the PID Consider the options for continuing / stopping Producing exception plans Closing a Project PRINCE2® at the end of a project Transition of product to operational use How well did we do? Tying up all the loose ends

PRINCE2® Foundation: Virtual In-House Training Projects fail for a variety of reasons including poor planning, lack of defined quality criteria, poor understanding of the business drivers, inadequate control, and lack of senior management involvement in other words, lack of a structured best practice approach to project delivery. PRINCE2® (6th Edition is the current version) is a structured, process-based approach to project management providing a methodology which can be easily tailored and scaled to suit all types of projects. It is the de facto standard for project management in the UK Government and is used extensively in more than 150 countries worldwide with in excess of 20,000 organizations already benefiting from its powerful approach. It can be used easily in combination with PMI®'s PMBOK® Guideto provide a robust project management methodology, or to augment an existing PMBOK®-based methodology with additional rigor around areas such as Quality, Organization, and Benefits Realization. The goals of this course are to provide participants with a thorough grounding in PRINCE2® and its benefits and to prepare them to sit the Foundation exam. What you will Learn You'll learn how to: Identify the benefits and principles underlying a structured approach to project management Define the PRINCE2® method in depth, including the principles, themes, and processes Prepare and practice for the Foundation exam Getting Started Introductions Course structure Course goals and objectives Overview of the PRINCE2® Foundation exam PRINCE2® Introduction Introducing PRINCE2® The structure of PRINCE2® What PRINCE2® does not provide What makes a project a 'PRINCE2® project'? Project Management with PRINCE2® Defining a project Managing a project Controlling the variables The Project Manager's work PRINCE2 Principles PRINCE2® Principles The Seven Principles Tailoring and Adopting PRINCE2® Defining tailoring Defining embedding What can be tailored? Who is responsible for tailoring? Introduction to the PRINCE2® Themes What is a PRINCE2® Theme? What are the PRINCE2® Themes? Tailoring the themes Format of the theme chapters Business Case Need for a business case Elements of a business case How a business case is developed Managing Benefits Organization Need for a special type of organization PRINCE2® organization structure Roles in a PRINCE2® project Combining roles Quality Relevance of quality to project work Quality, quality control, and quality assurance Quality management approach and the quality register Who is responsible for quality? Plans Need for plans and their hierarchy Approach to planning Content of a PRINCE2® plan Product-based planning Risk The need to manage risks What is a risk? Risk and continued business justification A risk management option Change Change is inevitable Different types of change Baselines and configuration management Issue and change control in PRINCE2® Progress Controlling a PRINCE2® project The application of tolerance Types of control Raising exceptions Introduction to Processes Processes and the project lifecycle The PRINCE2® journey Structure of the process chapters Tailoring the processes Starting up a Project Appointing people to the PRINCE2® roles Establishing some baselines Should we go further with this work? Planning for initiation Directing a Project Should we start / continue the project? Responding to internal / external influences Should we close this project? Initiating a Project Establishing the project's approaches Creating the project plan Refining the business case Assembling the PID Controlling a Stage Authorizing and reviewing work Monitoring and reporting Handling non-planned situations Triggering the next process Managing Product Delivery Accepting work from the Project Manager Getting the work done by the team Routine and non-routine reporting Handing back the completed work Managing a Stage Boundary Taking stock of what we have done Updating the PID Consider the options for continuing / stopping Producing exception plans Closing a Project PRINCE2® at the end of a project Transition of product to operational use How well did we do? Tying up all the loose ends

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Duration 3 Days 18 CPD hours This course is intended for This course is intended for intermediate to advanced Business Analysts who are looking to improve their skills for eliciting, analyzing, documenting, validating, and communicating requirements. Overview Obtain a thorough understanding of the core responsibilities of the business analyst Understand the main professional associations and standards supporting business analysts in the industry Discuss and explore the components of each of the domains/knowledge areas that comprise the work of business analysis Recognize the importance of properly defining the business need prior to engaging in requirements activities Formulate a strong understanding of the concepts that comprise strategy analysis Obtain experience with identifying and analyzing stakeholders Decipher between project and product scope and successfully use models to communicate scope Thoroughly understand and identify the various requirements categories and be able to recognize requirements of various types Explore business rules analysis Understand the benefits of process modeling and the common modeling language of BPMN Discuss process models and how the techniques can capture details about the as-is/to-be environment Learn how to properly prepare and conduct interviews Explore the components of use cases Learn what it means to package requirements Obtain hands-on experience with a number of business analysis techniques and gain hands-on experience eliciting, defining, and writing requirements. This course provides students a clear understanding of all the facets of the business analysis role, including a thorough walkthrough of the various domain/knowledge areas that comprise the business analysis profession. Students are provided an opportunity to try their hand at several business analysis techniques to assist with improving their skills in stakeholder identification, scope definition, and analyzing, documenting, and modeling requirements. Introduction to Business Analysis What is business analysis Benefits and challenges of business analysis Project success factors A Closer Look at the Business Analyst Role Definition of a business analyst Responsibilities of a business analyst Importance of communication/collaboration BA role vs. PM role Project roles involved in requirements IIBA/PMI and the goals of a professional association Purpose for having a BA standard IIBA?s BABOK© Guide and PMI?s Practice Guide in Business Analysis Business analysis beyond project work Business analysis core concepts Business analysis perspectives IIBA and PMI certifications for business analysts Workshop: Choose Your Project Supporting the Project Portfolio (Enterprise Analysis) Define Strategy Analysis When to perform Strategy Analysis Components of Strategy Analysis Defining the business need Envisioning the Product and Project Defining business requirements The importance of stakeholders Stakeholder identification Tips for analyzing stakeholders Techniques for managing stakeholder lists Discussion: Who is involved in strategy analysis? Workshops: Define the Business Need, Write Business Requirements, and Identify Stakeholders Understanding and Defining Solution Scope Defining solution scope Techniques for defining solution scope Applying the brainstorming technique Project scope vs. Product scope Finding solution boundaries The Context Diagram Actors and key information Workshop: Draw a Context Diagram Understanding Requirements What is a requirement? Requirement types Business, Stakeholder, Solution, and Transition requirements Assumptions and constraints Business rules Taxonomy of business rules Decision tables How to write simple calculations Requirements vs. business rules Document requirements Workshop ? Document Requirements Elicitation and Process Modeling Why do we model processes? What is Business Process Management? Using a modeling notation ?As Is? vs. ?To Be? modeling Why use BPMN? Basic BPM notation Business Process Modeling ? A case study Business Process Realignment ?As Is? vs. ?To Be? activity diagrams Workshop: Create a Business Process Model Planning & Eliciting Requirements Interviewing ? what and why? Preparing for an effective interview Types of questions to ask Sequencing questions Active listening techniques Planning for elicitation Conducting the interview Establishing rapport Active Listening Feedback techniques Types of elicitation techniques Workshops: Planning for Elicitation and Conducting an Elicitation Session Use Case & User Story Analysis What is an Actor? Types of Actors How to ?find? Use Cases? Diagramming Use Cases Tips on naming Use Cases Explaining scenarios The use case template Components of a use case Scenario examples Best practices for writing Use Cases Scenarios and flows Alternate and exception flows Exercises: Drawing a Use Case Diagram, Writing the Main Success Scenario, and Writing Alternate and Exception Scenarios Analyzing & Documenting Requirements Requirements and Use Cases Non-Functional requirements User Interface Requirements UI Data Table Reporting requirements Data requirements Data accessibility requirements Characteristics of good requirements The business requirements document (BRD) BRD vs. Functional Requirements Specification Preparing the requirements package Requirements traceability Workshops: Develop a User Interface, Analyzing Requirements, and Tracing requirements Additional Resources Useful books and links on writing effective requirements