In my article about the complete Prince2 health check I explained that the main features of PRINCE2 are:
- Business Case: Business justification of the project (which benefits contributes the project for the organization, how does the project contribute to the corporate goal).
- Product Based Planning: A planning based on the products that should delivered.
- Organisation: Defined organizational structure for the project (project manager, business executive, project board, etc.).
- Stages: controlable and checkable project stages.
- Management by Exception: The project board comes together only when strictly necessary.
In this article we’ll look a little bit further on the Product Based Planning aspects of a project. Not only because I have created two home made templates ( Product Breakdown Structure and Product Flow Diagram in Visio format) but also because I think that Product Based Planning helps you to keep your focus right while delivering the required results. (more…)
Written by admin on October 15th, 2008 with no comments.
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The list of sample prince2 exams has been extended with 2 new sample exams. You can use these sample exams as a warming up for your real Prince2 foundation or practitioner exam. The sample exams added are:
Check the article for an complete overview of the Prince2 foundation sample exams found on the internet.
Written by admin on October 13th, 2008 with 2 comments.
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The list of sample prince2 exams has been extended with 2 new sample exams. You can use these sample exams as a warming up for your real Prince2 foundation exam. The sample exams added are:
Check the article for an complete overview of the Prince2 foundation sample exams found on the internet.
Written by admin on September 30th, 2008 with no comments.
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Check these free Prince2 foundation exam samples - So you’ve prepared yourself for your Prince2 foundation exam. All you need to do now is find some Prince2 foundation questions to practise the Foundation exam. Ofcourse you can go to a Prince2 ATO pay a couple of hundred euro’s for exam training. But another option is to test yourself with the following free samples of the Prince2 foundation exam:
If you have any additions to this list then please leave a comment. I hope this article helps with your preparations of your Prince2 exam.
Written by admin on September 14th, 2008 with 4 comments.
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Overzicht van gratis Prince2 voorbeeld examens. Als je je aan het voorbereiden bent op je Prince2 foundation examen dan wil je natuurlijk wel even oefenen. Als je via je opleidingsinstituut geen toegang hebt tot de Lagant Prince2 Foundation Examen Site dan wil je natuurlijk wel wat anders.
Uiteraard kun je je voorbeeldexamens kopen bij Exin.
Maar je kunt natuurlijk ook op zoek gaan naar voorbeeldexamens op het internet. Bijvoorbeeld door deze links te volgen:
Ik hoop dat ik je op weg geholpen heb met je voorbereiding op je examen. Mocht je nog een site met voorbeeldvragen weten laat dan een reactie achter.
Written by admin on September 14th, 2008 with 4 comments.
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On the previous article on how to prepare for the Prince2 foundation exam I told you what chapter you have to study in order to pass the exam. In this article I’ll try to explain what books can help with the preparation.
First of all I must explain that I’m dutch and living in the Netherlands. This makes me a little biased. Since I prefer Dutch books over English books my advice also tends to go into that direction. Knowing that I hope my tips will help you in pointing a direction, reed the reviews in your country to check if the readers share my opinion.
The books I suggest for Prince2 are:
- Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2, Author: Office of Government Commerce, Publisher: The Stationery Office, ISBN: 9780113309467;
- Projectmanagement on basis of Prince2, Author: B. Hedeman, G. Vis van Heemst & Freddriksz, H., Publisher: Van Haren Publishing, ISBN: 9789077212837
The MSP bible comes in various languages. Although my training company provided me the dutch version, I prefer the english version.
Written by admin on September 5th, 2008 with no comments.
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On the 11th of july I had the Prince2 Practicioner exam new style. I must say I was a little bit nervous before doing the exam. After having done the exam I was not sure if I had passed the exam or not. There are just too many questions to get an idea which one I answered correct or which one not. After the exam I just confided in myself and the preparation towards the exam and wished for the best.
During my holidays I received an email with the good news: PASSED!
After this result I can write down shortly what I did in order to pass the exam:
- I did my foundation exam in 2002. After passing the exam I gained a lot of project management experience AND Prince2 experience between 2002 and 2008.
- I implemented project management according to Prince2 in 2 departments and supported many project managers doing their projects.
- I selected a well known (for its quality) Prince2 trainer: ‘t Ruysdael. And fortunately I had a good trainer: Ruud Wouters.
- During the course I rehearsed the foundation exam online, with the website provided by ‘t Ruysdael. Doing the foundation exam I got a clue about my weak spots in theory.
- I started studying on my weak spots.
- I practised the practicioner exam online with the website provided by ‘t Ruysdael. I also took the exam preparation course in order to get used to the type of questions and the way to analyse/answer them.
- A good night of sleep before the exam.
- Do the exam with good time management.
Well that’s all folks. I must say that I was very critical selecting the right training company. Some offer a Prince2 course in 3 days and I selected one with a little bit more of time. I didn’t want to get rushed and feel obligated to study too much besides my current job. That’s why the combined foundation/practicioner fast track from ‘t Ruysdael seemed ideal for me. After all it worked out fine.
I wish everybody good luck with their Prince2 exam, I’m very interested in your experience so why not leave a comment with your approach/result of the Prince2 training/exam. My next stop will be the MSP intermediate exam.
Written by admin on September 5th, 2008 with no comments.
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Frequently I receive questions from people who would like to prepare for the prince2 foundation exam by selfstudy. Most of the times the questions are about example questions for the exam or for literature needed for the exam.
In three articles I will try to explain:
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What is an approach for studying for the foundation exam using the OGC bible: Managing Successful Projects with Prince2?
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What other books are recommended besides the Prince2 manual?
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How can I prepare myself on the exam itself, what kind of questions can I expect?
This article is about studying the Prince2 manual. The other two articles will follow soon.
Foundation exam approach using the Prince2 manual
First of all. The Prince2 manual is originally written in English. It was no really suited for Dutch students with poor understanding of the English language. This has changed since the manual has been translated in Dutch in the beginning of 2008. So if you’re dutch and still have the English manual: go to the book store and buy the Dutch version (recommended!).
So now about the approach. You have to read the following chapters to begin with:
Prince2 Product flow diagram in vsd format (Microsoft Visio)
Chapter 22 of the English OGC manual ‘Managing Successful Projects with Prince2′ explains the product-based planning technique. It is used in the sub-process Defining and Analysing Products (PL-2) of the Planning process.
Within the product-based planning technique four products are created:
- Product description of the final product
- Product breakdown structure
- Product descriptions of each product
- Product flow diagram
I created Microsoft Visio templates for the Product breakdown structure and the Product flow diagram. Feel free to use them, and leave a comment as appreciation.Click here to download Prince2 Product flow diagram in vsd format.
If you think things can be improved or if you have templates you would like to add then send me a message. All templates can be found here: http://prince2.healthcheck-online.com/my-prince2-tools-and-downloads/
Written by admin on July 18th, 2008 with no comments.
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Prince2 Product breakdown structure in vsd format (Microsoft Visio)
Chapter 22 of the English OGC manual ‘Managing Successful Projects with Prince2′ explains the product-based planning technique. It is used in the sub-process Defining and Analysing Products (PL-2) of the Planning process.
Within the product-based planning technique four products are created:
1. Product description of the final product
2. Product breakdown structure
3. Product descriptions of each product
4. Product flow diagram
I created Microsoft Visio templates for the Product breakdown structure and the Product flow diagram. Feel free to use them, and leave a comment as appreciation.
Click here to download Prince2 Product breakdown structure in vsd format.
If you think things can be improved or if you have templates you would like to add then send me a message. All templates can be found here: http://prince2.healthcheck-online.com/my-prince2-tools-and-downloads/
Written by admin on July 17th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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