Project Management Skills Escalator

							                                         JH April 06

                                                                              PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS ESCALATOR




                                                                                                                                          PRINCE2 Practitioner Exam
Outputs to support skill development




                                                                                                                                                               Projects and
                                                                                              PRINCE2 Foundation Programme                                     Programmes
                                                                                                                                       Planning and            • What is a programme?
                                                                                                                                       running a large         • Managing
                                                                                                                                       project                  dependencies
                                                   Introduction to Project Management                       Running a project                                  • Prioritising resources
                                                                                                            •   Assigning roles                                  between competing
                                                                                                                                       Securing resources
                                                                                                            •   Managing risk                                    projects
                                                   Workshop                                                 •   Controlling change
                                                                                                                                        • The business case
                                                                                                                                                               • Synchronising with
                                                                               Planning a small             •   Quality assurance      Project setup
                                                                                                                                                                 strategy
                                                                               project                      •   Monitoring progress                            • Integration with other
                                                                                                                                        • Project governance
                                                                               •   Estimating time          •   Tracking issues                                  projects
                                                                                                                                        • Communications
                                                                               •   Estimating resources     •   Project monitoring      • Document control
                                                       Introduction to         •   Critical path analysis       tools                   • Quality assurance
                                                       Project                 •   Stakeholder analysis                                 • Project stages
                                                       Management              •   Gantt charts             Delegating tasks
                                                         •   What is a         •   Project planning tools   Dealing with difficult     Project control
                                                           project?                  – MS Project etc       people                      • Managing scope
                                                         •   Methodologies                                  Time management             • Managing resources
                                                           vs. techniques      Project governance
                                                         •   Tools: PRINCE2                                 Planning a large project   Negotiation skills
                                                           Awareness

                                       KSF                    1 –2                    2 –3                            3                              4                  4
                                       levels           KSF Dimensions: Core Dimension 4 Service Improvement, General Dimesion 5 Services & Project Management

                                        Skills Escalator Linked to KSF Levels and degree of responsibility for project delivery / Complexity of
                                                                                      project