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PRINCE2 Vs APMPWe do a lot of project management training here at Silicon Beach – including our ever popular PRINCE2 courses – and we’re often asked “should I take the PRINCE2 Practitioner or the APMP exam.

Well, there are some important differences between the PRINCE2 Practitioner certification and the APMP qualification, and we’ll cover those as quickly and clearly as we can here…

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Book in July or August for great rates on PRINCE2 Training and Six Sigma Training

PRINCE2 TrainingThere are already lots of reasons to take your PRINCE2 and Six Sigma courses at Silicon Beach Training.

And here’s another great reason! If you book in July or August you can take advantage of these fantastic low rates:

Six Sigma Training

All Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Training Courses: £1,495 + vat (normally £1,795)
All PRINCE2 Foundation Training Courses: £845 + vat (normally £995)
All PRINCE2 Practitioner Training Courses: £995 + vat
(normally £1,395)

And with small group sizes, inspirational tutors with extensive real-world project experience and some of the best PRINCE2 pass rates in the country, our delegates always go home happy!

I recently attended (and passed) the PRINCE2 Foundation & Practitioner course at Silicon Beach and cannot recommend it enough.  The brilliant trainer brought the subject matter to life making it interesting and integrating PRINCE2 into my day to day working life has been made so simple – a real life skill.  A great location too – thank you Silicon Beach.
Emma Rance – The Body Shop

For more information or to make bookings, call us on 01273 622272 or e-mail bookings@siliconbeachtraining.co.uk

Read more about using Six Sigma and PRINCE2 together
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PRINCE2 on the web: the best PRINCE2 blogs

prince2-blogsPRINCE2 is ever-growing and we’ve recently extended our PRINCE2 Training to cover Birmingham as well as Brighton. We’ve also created a communal PRINCE2 Facebook page to encourage people to share their PRINCE2 tips and resources.

It’s easy to find great Project Management blogs, see our list for Business Computing World. But despite the popularity of PRINCE2, there’s a surprisingly small number of PRINCE2 dedicated and regularly updated blogs on the web.

Below we’ve listed our favourites as well as some others from scouring the Internet and the SERPs. Let us know what you think – we’d love to hear if you know a PRINCE2 blog that we’ve missed.

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prince2-training-iphone-appA PRINCE2 Training iPhone app – and it’s fun too!

Silicon Beach Training offer PRINCE2 training courses in Birmingham and Brighton.

I discovered this PRINCE2 iPhone app recently when compiling a list of the best iPhone apps for Project Managers over at Business Computing World and just had to share it! PRINCE2 Snakes and Ladders allows you to play on your own or with others via Bluetooth, with questions on each turn allowing you to go up ladders or avoid going down snakes.

prince2-training-appYou may have already have taken our online PRINCE2 quiz put together by Colin, which goes some way towards breaking down PRINCE2 and helping you revise. This app also isn’t cheap at £4.99. But for revising PRINCE2 on the go I don’t think this app can be beat!

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7 secrets to make sure you pass your PRINCE2 exam

prince2-examIf you’re thinking of attending PRINCE2 Training in Birmingham or in Brighton, read these handy tips to help you perform to your best:

  1. Read the manual! It sounds silly but you’d be surprised how many skim read the PRINCE2 manual or miss out chunks. The five-day PRINCE2 Practitioner training is very intensive, so do yourself a big favour by reading the manual right through in advance.
  2. You can take in your PRINCE2 Practitioner manual although you can’t take in your own notes or documents. But you can put notes all over your PRINCE2 manual – this is fine! So whether it’s a process diagram or a one word memory trigger, fill the white spaces on the inside covers with notes to help you.
  3. Familiarise your self with PBS (product breakdown structure); if you are not familiar with this you will struggle with many of the questions. If you really have difficulty interpreting the product symbols then include your own notes in your PRINCE2 manual. You need to then understand how a PBS relates to a product flow diagram. Lack of revision in this area is an easy way to lose marks.
  4. When choosing from multiple choice answers, watch out for answers that have the word “must” or “always” in, because there are very few straight and simple answers in PRINCE2 and the examiners will try to catch you out.
  5. If a question requires the same answer twice in a row e.g. “who would be the most suitable person for this task?”, don’t worry about choosing them twice – the questions are not related to each other at all.
  6. Beware of common sense! The PRINCE2 exam is looking for an ideal application of its methodology in specific scenarios, not what you may well do in a real-life situation where your colleagues haven’t taken their PRINCE2 certification.
  7. Remember your photographic ID as the invigilator won’t let you take the exam without it. If you have changed your name since you registered or took Foundation then take the appropriate paperwork.
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PRINCE2 Training BirminghamWe’re pleased to announce that we’re now offering public PRINCE2 Training in Birmingham, and we’ve got some excellent reduced rates on the first workshops to celebrate the launch.

We’ve been running our regular PRINCE2 courses in Brighton for six years now, and achieve some of the best pass rates in the industry – currently 98% for Foundation and 85% for Practitioner.

We have many great clients outside the South East and we’re often asked if we run PRINCE2 training anywhere else in the country – and now the answer is YES!

Our PRINCE2 Foundation and PRINCE2 Practitioner courses in central Birmingham are now available to book, with dates starting from July 2010.

And to celebrate our Birmingham PRINCE2 launch, we’re offering some good discounts:

PRINCE2 Foundation training Birmingham5 – 7 July: £795 + vat (normally £995)

PRINCE2 Practitioner training Birmingham - 5 – 9 July: £895 + vat (normally £1,395)

Our courses are run by PRINCE2 Accredited trainers with a wealth of real-world project management experience.

For more information or to book your place call 01273 622272 or e-mail bookings@siliconbeachtraining.co.uk

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Colin Welch

NEW – PRINCE2 Quiz

PRINCE2-QuizInterested in PRINCE2 Training and want to test your knowledge?

Now you can, with our Interactive PRINCE2 Quiz.

Broken down in to 11 bite-sized parts, our new quiz tests your knowledge of PRINCE2 2009 Themes and Processes.

Parts 1 & 2 are available now, with the rest to follow shortly.

So what are you waiting for – get stuck in and test your knowledge!

If you need a little help, why not check out the comprehensive guide to PRINCE2 in our Free Resources section?

Whist our free resources and quiz are a great way to swot up and test your knowledge – the only way to thoroughly prepare for your official PRINCE2 exam is to attend our instructor-led PRINCE2 Foundation training or PRINCE2 Practitioner training courses.

Happy Quizzing!

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prince2-downloadsOne of the questions we’re most commonly asked by delegates attending our PRINCE2 Training is “how does this apply in the real world”. Whilst a good PRINCE2 Foundation or PRINCE2 Practitioner course should get you through your exam (which I’m pleased to say we’re very successful at with a 97% pass rate), PRINCE2 is essentially a toolkit, and it’s equally important to understand how you’ll actually use these tools back at the office.

We achieve this by using PRINCE2 certified trainers who have extensive real-world experience as project managers who can help you to understand how the PRINCE2 processes and themes apply to real projects.

PLUS – everyone can now download free PRINCE2 Project Templates and PRINCE2 Case Studies from our Free Resources section.

Download the PRINCE2 Project Templates for a zipped folder stuffed with documents in Word and Excel format that you can use at every stage of your PRINCE2 project.

Download the PRINCE2 Case Studies for real-world insights in to how the British Council and Suffolk County Council have benefited from PRINCE2.

If you have any questions about the PRINCE2 method or are interested in attending a PRINCE2 training course, call our office on 01273 622272 or e-mail us at info@siliconbeachtraining.co.uk

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