NICF - PRINCE2 6TH EDITION FOUNDATION IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT (SF) (SYNCHRONOUS E-LEARNING)

NICF - PRINCE2 6TH EDITION FOUNDATION IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT (SF) (SYNCHRONOUS E-LEARNING)

Funded

Course Duration

24.0 hr(s)

Mode of Assessment

Students will be required to complete a paper-based NICF assessment during class.

After completing the course and with relevant experience, students can proceed to undertake the optional external exam PRINCE2 Foundation Certificate exam.

For students who had paid for certification examination(s), they will receive a printed instruction voucher or email instructions during the class period to allow them to book the relevant computer-based examination for their course (e.g. exam 77-418: Word 2013 Core for students taking Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS): Word 2013).

As we recognize that every individual has different studying pace, we will allow everyone to make a choice when they are ready to take the examination*. So, they can register for their examination date by proceeding to level 3 Room G Exam Department at our NTUC Trade Union House center to book their examination upon receipt of the instruction voucher/ email instructions.

*Subjected to terms and conditions and schedule availability. The exam department cannot register for your examination if the voucher provided by the official vendor has expired. The instruction voucher or email instructions will not indicate the expiry date.

Who Should Attend

This course is appropriate for professionals that are involved in projects from all sectors and disciplines and others directly or indirectly involved in project management. Specifically, people in the following roles should attend:
 

  • Programme/Project Managers
  • Project Sponsors
  • Portfolio Analysts
  • Programme/Project Officers
  • Project Leaders/Specialists
  • Project Engineers
  • Project Team Members
  • Senior Users
  • Senior Suppliers
  • Project Board and Executives
  • Project Assurance, Change Authority
  • Professionals who wish to attain the PRINCE2 creden

What's In It for Me

  • PRINCE2 certification is globally recognised
  • PRINCE2 credential holders can be confident that their professional credential has been developed according to industry best practices and demonstrate proof of project management competency with a thorough understanding of the best-practice approach that substantially increases the likelihood of project success
  • A PRINCE2 certification increases ones career marketing and raises customer confidence, as professionals need to demonstrate not just a technical ability in their specialist area, but also an ability to competently deliver projects

Course Overview

NTUC LearningHub Course Code: NICF049
SkillsConnect Code: CRS-Q-0038617-ICT

With effect from 1st November 2019,  it is mandatory for participants attending “NICF – PRINCE2 6th Edition Foundation in Project Management (SF)” course to pay for official certification exam before commencement of the class. 

Managing projects is a challenging thing to do as it often involves people, organisations and resources and possibly in new, unfamiliar and unpredictable environment to creating new products and services. This course provides an overview of the PRINCE2 principles, themes and processes to help you manage risks, quality, changes and check throughout the project that the business case remains valid, on track and have been met.

The course material is based on the best practices documented in the book, Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2 2017 Edition, which lists the essential knowledge and processes to effectively manage projects in controlled environment to meet the objectives. The project principles covered in this course leads to earning a professional credential known as PRINCE2 Foundation certification, accredited by AXELOS.

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Course Objectives

  • Understand the starting up a project process and the activities responsible for appointing the executive and project manager and preparing the project brief and planning the initiation stage
  • Understand the directing a project process and the activities responsible for authorising initiation, project, a stage or exception plan and project closure.
  • Understand the initiating a project process and the activities responsible for preparing the risk management, configuration management, quality management and communication management strategies, creating the project plan and the project initiation documentation
  • Understand the controlling a stage process and the activities responsible for reviewing work package status, stage status, reporting highlights, capturing and escalating issue and risks and taking corrective action
  • Understand the managing product delivery process and the activities responsible for accepting, executing and delivering a work package
  • Understand the managing a stage boundary process and the activities responsible for planning the next stage, updating the project plan and business case, reporting stage end and producing exception report
  • Understand the closing a project process and the activities responsible for preparing planned/premature closure, handing over products, evaluating the project and recommending project closure

Pre-requisites

These are the admission requirements:

  • Recognise the basic concepts of project management and project lifecycle
  • Recognise the importance between projects and the established business benefits for continued viability of project existence

Course Outline

Overview of PRINCE2

  • Introduction to PRINCE2
  • PRINCE2 Framework
  • Principles, Themes and Processes

PRINCE2 Themes

  • Business Case Theme
  • Organisation Theme
  • Quality Theme
  • Plans Theme
  • Risk Theme
  • Change Theme
  • Progress Theme

PRINCE2 Processes

  • Starting up a Project
  • Initiating a Project
  • Directing a Project
  • Managing a Stage Boundary
  • Controlling a Stage
  • Managing a Product Delivery
  • Closing a Project

Tailoring PRINCE2

  • Tailoring PRINCE2 to the Project Environment
  • Exam Preparation

Certificate Obtained and Conferred by

Awarded NICF Statement of Attainments (SOA)

Upon completion of the course and assessment, students will also be awarded with these NICF SOAs:

  • Pending accreditation

Official PRINCE2 Foundation Certification Examination

After students pass the external exam, they will receive a PRINCE2 Foundation Certification.

ITIL and PRINCE2 are registered trade marks of AXELOS Limited, used under permission of AXELOS Limited. All rights reserved.

Copyright AXELOS Limited 2017. Used under permission of AXELOS Limited. All rights reserved.

Additional Details

PDUs for Maintaining PMP Credential

This course is eligible for PDU Credits. Upon successful completion of this course, Project Management Professional (PMP) credential holders will be awarded with 24 PDUs. Applicants need to access the PMI CCR System at https://ccrs.pmi.org/search/ to claim their PDU points.

ITIL and PRINCE2 are registered trade marks of AXELOS Limited, used under permission of AXELOS Limited. All rights reserved.

Copyright AXELOS Limited 2017. Used under permission of AXELOS Limited. All rights reserved.

Price

  Individual Sponsored Company Sponsored
      Non-SME SME
  W/O GST W/GST W/O GST W GST W/O GST W GST
Original Course Fee $950.00 $1,016.50 $950.00 $1,016.50 $950.00 $1,016.50
Singapore Citizens & PRs aged 21 years and above $590.00 $656.50 $590.00 $656.50 $95.00 $161.50
Singapore Citizens aged 40 and above $95.00 $161.50 $95.00 $161.50 $95.00 $161.50

Remarks:

Individual Sponsored

  • Eligible Singapore Citizens can use their SkillsFuture Credit to offset course fee payable after funding.
  • Eligible Singapore Citizens can use their PSEA funds to offset course fee payable after funding.

Company Sponsored

  • Absentee Payroll claimable by SMEs: Up to 80%of hourly basic salary capped at $7.50/hr
  • Absentee Payroll claimable by Non-SMEs: Up to 80% of hourly basic salary capped at $4.50/hr

Certification Exam Fee: 

$345.00 (before GST) / $369.15 (with GST)

With effect from 1st November 2019,  it is mandatory for participants attending “NICF – PRINCE2 2017 Foundation in Project Management (SF)” course to pay for official certification exam before commencement of the class.

Terms and conditions apply. NTUC LearningHub reserve the right to make changes or improvements to any of the products described in this document without prior notice.

Prices are subject to other LHUB miscellaneous fees

ITIL and PRINCE2 are registered trade marks of AXELOS Limited, used under permission of AXELOS Limited. All rights reserved.

Copyright AXELOS Limited 2017. Used under permission of AXELOS Limited. All rights reserved.

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