P2F: PRINCE2 Project Management Foundation (Version 7)

Module 1: Overview of PRINCE2® project management

This module introduces the key concepts of project management and provides an overview of a project’s context. The aim of this module is to help learners to understand those key concepts. It explores the definition and characteristics of a project and the integrated elements of PRINCE2 Project Management. It also covers the features and benefits of PRINCE2 Project Management and the user/supplier context on which the model is based.

Finally, the module concludes with an explanation of how all these elements come together in the PRINCE2 Project Management journey, and aspects to consider in tailoring a project.

Module 2: People

This module explores the ways in which people are central to project management. The objective of this module is to identify stakeholders across the ecosystems, and explain key concepts relating to change management, leadership, and communication, along with practical applications to support successful projects.

Module 3: Organization

This module defines the project’s structure and accountability. The aim of this module is to help learners understand who should be included on a project management team and what their responsibilities are. It outlines the key roles involved.

Module 4: Starting up and initiating a project

The main aim of this module is to ensure that learners understand the two important processes in PRINCE2 Project Management, starting up a project and initiating a project, and the differences between them. An additional aim of this module is to communicate key points about the project brief and Project Initiation Documentation (PID).

Module 5: Business case

The main aim of this module is to ensure that learners understand that a business case is used to document the justification for the undertaking of a project, based on the estimated costs against the anticipated benefits to be gained and offset by any associated risks. It should outline how and when the anticipated benefits can be measured. The business case is developed when ‘starting up a project’, and is reviewed and updated during all the processes of the project journey.

Module 6: Plans

The main aim of this module is to ensure that learners understand the importance of planning in exercising control. Plans facilitate communication and control by defining the means of delivering the products. It is important to note that the other practices depend on effective planning before and during each project.

Module 7: Quality

The main aim of this module is to ensure that learners understand that the products created by the project must fulfil required expectations and benefits. It is important to note that the quality and planning practices are strongly related, as quality needs to be incorporated into the project planning stages.

Module 8: Risk

As projects are about doing something new, planned change introduces uncertainty and risk. This module aims to explain how to identify, assess, and control this risk, as it may affect the project objectives.

Module 9: Controlling a stage and managing product delivery

The aim of this module is to ensure that learners understand how the project manager and the team manager should work together during two closely aligned processes: ‘controlling a stage’ and ‘managing product delivery’. During these processes, the project manager and team manager need to ensure that the products of each stage are delivered at the right time and within agreed tolerances.

Module 10: Managing a stage boundary

This module defines the ‘managing a stage boundary’ process, which provides the information to the project board so that they can decide whether to continue to the next stage.

Module 11: Issues

The main aim of this module is to ensure that learners can understand the importance of the issues practice, which is to be ready and able to deal with changes that occur in the organization and in the wider environment.

Module 12: Progress

The aim of this module is to explain the purpose and guidelines for the practice to ensure that project managers can control the project and know where they are against the current plan.

Module 13: Closing a project

The main aim of this module is to ensure that learners understand how to provide the project with a clear end and a correct handover of information and responsibility. Note that the project board actually closes the project; the project manager only prepares the project for closure.

Module 14: Directing a project

This module explains the directing a project process, which covers the activities of the project board and is not concerned with the day-to-day activities of the project manager. This process begins at the start of the project and is used throughout the project lifespan.

Module 15: Course Review

This module allows time to revisit the key learning points of the course, as well as important aspects relating to the exams.