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We have just updated our Free Resources with some fantastic FREE PRINCE2 Training Resources, this includes our recently released PRINCE2 Training eBook – Managing a Project, useful PRINCE2 Training Quiz for your Prince2 examination revision, quality PRINCE2 Training Templates and much more…
If you would like to learn more about PRINCE2 Training then come along to our PRINCE2 Foundation Training, if you already know the basics then perhaps our PRINCE2 Practitioner Training or PRINCE2 Practitioner Conversion Training would be more appropriate.
PRINCE2 (PRojects IN Controlled Environments) is a controlled process for efficient project management. It’s used by the United Kingdom Government and it is recognised as the top project management tool worldwide. PRINCE2 is a registered trademark of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC).
PRINCE2’s key features –
- A clearly defined structure for the project management team
- A planning approach which is product-based
- Manageable and controllable stages are very important
- Each level of the project is flexible
Next Prince2 Training courses in Brighton are running on
- 6 – 10 Dec 2010
- 10 – 14 Jan 2011
- 7 – 11 Feb 2011
- 28 Feb – 4 Mar 2011
Posted by Aaron Charlie in Management & Leadership, News, PRINCE2, Project Management on November 24th, 2010| No Comments »
Free PRINCE2 Ebook download for Mobile
As ever we like to keep on trend! So for all you Project Managers on the go or those wishing to revise for their PRINCE2 Practitioner Training or PRINCE2 Foundation Training in Brighton, Sussex, we have provided a PRINCE2 guide – a Free Prince2 Ebook for your mobile devices. It will work on your IPhone, IPad, IPod Touch, Android Phone… just about everything.
We will be adding lots more ebooks for mobiles in the near future so if you have any requests let us know – use comments below for suggestions.
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We also have a free PRINCE2 quiz for you to test yourself.
Posted by Heather Buckley in Human Resources, New Free Resources, Offers, PRINCE2 on November 18th, 2010| No Comments »
Project Managers are often inclined to care more that a job is done according to procedures than about a job being done well. Whilst budgets and schedules are vitally important and you cannot underestimate how essential it is for a good Project Manager to have a clear grasp and control over these elements, people and personality are also an important part of the mix.
Silicon Beach Training is an Accredited Training Organisation for PRINCE2 training in Brighton, Sussex, and offers a full range of PRINCE2 courses inducing Prince2 Foundation and Prince2 Practitioner Training courses with pass rates well above the national averages. We also provide a popular Project Management and MS Project training package you can book our 1-day Project Management course with our 2-day MS Project course.
Project Management procedures as well as software development procedures are extremely difficult to stick to at all times. You need people to enforce procedures or practices until people get used to them. And if these people cannot see the value in a specific procedure they may never get used to it. What makes a great project manager is knowing what procedures are essential and what details can be flexible. If something hasn’t happened according to plan, it is actually going to be better for the project to hold a meeting about it and change things that are not essential if to redo something will risk spending more time and money than is necessary. Sometimes it may be better to hold a meeting at the end, after the budget and deadline have been met and discuss as a group what changes you would make next time.
Project Management Methodologies are based on procedures. Prince2, for example, is structured into 8 processes which cover all the activities in the project, 8 components which take up various aspects of project management and 3 techniques. However, there are multitude of techniques which can be used. I am not about to imply that Prince2 training is not a great way to learn about Project Management. The great thing about Prince2 is that it is a standard, in a large organisation projects need to be managed to the same standard using the same techniques in order for projects to move forward. There needs to be a common understanding about the way that projects are handled. However sometimes so much time is spent on maintaining procedures that less time is spent on work which actually pushes a project ahead.
Whilst it may be important to create good document templates is it essential to spend time going over every detail of new document templates? It needs to make sense – what would be the point of discussing a 5-hour schedule change for an hour with 12 people? Sometimes just to let people get on with things and to hold back and not spend your time and others picking up every detail is what is needed to get a project out on time and budget.
We have some free Prince2 templates for you to download, free prince2 case studies, a free Prince2 training resourcePrince2 Quiz to test out your knowledge. and a
Posted by Heather Buckley in New Free Resources, News, PRINCE2, Project Management on October 25th, 2010| 4 Comments »
In addition to our ever-popular PRINCE2 training courses in Brighton, we’ve now widened our reach along the south coast to run scheduled PRINCE2 Training in Southampton.
You can expect the same great trainers, course materials and pass rates (currently 98% for PRINCE2 Foundation and 85% for PRINCE2 Practitioner), just all a little bit further West! The Southampton PRINCE2 courses courses start in November 2010.
What’s more – if you make a booking in September or October, we’ve got some great reduced rates available:
PRINCE2 Foundation training Southampton – 22-24 November: £795 + vat (normally £995)
PRINCE2 Practitioner training Southampton – 22-26 November: £895 + vat (normally £1,395)
All PRINCE2 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
Posted by Andy Trainer in News, PRINCE2, Project Management on September 29th, 2010| No Comments »
We do a lot of project management training here at Silicon Beach – including our ever popular PRINCE2 courses in Brighton, Sussex – 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…
Read the rest of "PRINCE2 vs APMP – What are the differences?"
Posted by Andy Trainer in PRINCE2, Project Management on July 14th, 2010| 13 Comments »
There 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:
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
Read our Lean Six Sigma Training Case Sudy
Posted by Andy Trainer in Lean & Six Sigma, News, Offers, PRINCE2 on July 12th, 2010| 1 Comment »
PRINCE2 on the web: the best PRINCE2 blogs
PRINCE2 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.
Read the rest of "The best PRINCE2 blogs"
Posted by Andy Trainer in PRINCE2 on May 12th, 2010| 5 Comments »
A 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.
You 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!
Posted by Andy Trainer in PRINCE2 on May 7th, 2010| 1 Comment »
