PRINCE2 courses

Dj_Jestar said:
<pedantry>It's only an acronym if you pronounce it as a word, otherwise it is an initialisation.</pedantry>

No one pronounces BAU as "Bow". Except idiots. Idiots do that. PID is Pid, though.

I'll see myself out.
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Well I genuinely didn't know that! Cheers! :)
 
As I've said before Phate, I only did the foundation online. Straight-forward enough but excruciatingly dull. I'm really not exaggerating when I say I fell asleep doing it on numerous occasions.

I'd suggest doing it as a proper course if you're that way inclined, and if you do you may as well do the Foundation into Practitioner three-day thing.

But honestly, it's so very, very boring.
 
I did the 5 day foundation and practitioner course in 2009.

I worked in a live services (service operations role) and mainly did it to understand the language and terminology used by project managers trying to throw things over the fence.... I mean, transition services into operations.

Was it useful ? Yeah. I think so. It's probably the industry qualification for project management that every HR cv sifter looks for, and if you don't have it, you could for totally stupid reasons miss out.

I had never done any project management work previously - other than been a stakeholder - and I found it quite intense, covering a lot of material, and having to do reading and exams each night.

If you've done project management, I won't be that bad, just dull like Will Gill states. Like ITIL exams, don't try and put sense into the learning, just accept it is what it is and repeat in the exam.
 
Ah the lingo you pick up is hilarious

"If we make sure X, Y and Z are done we are prepared no matter which way the cat jumps"

"We're bringing her around, and landing the plane"

"making sure all ducks are in a row" etc :p
 
I'd say go for it but combine it with some sort of Agile PM. When I worked for Hewlett Packard we dropped PRINCE2 in favor of AgilePM some time around March 2013.
 
Will Gill said:
It's a qualification that companies like you to have but you will never ever use, project management is about common sense not risk boards and management councils :D
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Absolutely.

I did the APM equivalent and it was a total boring waste of time. I don't put anything I learnt there into practise in the real world and that's not because I'm a bad PM, its because its all largely unimportant and useless!

My employer just wanted me to do it so they can say everybody in the company has the pass certificate.
 
sorry to drag this post back to life but thought it better than starting a new one....has anyone here done APMP and Prince2 practitioner?

I received my APMP qualification last year, but definitely think that it may be useful to have Prince2 as well. From reading up on the requirements, to take the Prince2 Practitioner exam you have to have passed either Prince2 Foundation, or another recognised qualification, one of which is IPMA level D (APMP is IPMA level D)

I'd like to know if anyone can share their experience and compare the difficulty level of the two exams, and how much benefit having undertaken APMP first will give me?

I'm considering doing this completely online at home as I have spare time at the moment, but ideally want to pass it in the next couple of weeks.

Many thanks,

Tom.
 
I directly employ 5 PMs and wouldn't waste my time. However, I did do it along with one of my guys a few months ago, thinking it was all the rage, while it's utterly pointless. Though I've heard the Practitioner course is slightly better.
 
Practitioner course is miles better than the Foundation. Stuff I learned in that week I use everyday at work now.
 
kiteloopy said:
Ive done it.

I preped the week before and im glad I did. It was far too much for me to take in if I hadnt of done a full pre-read of the book cover to cover.
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I did it a couple of years back. Did a few weeks of prep before the course using the "prince 2 for dummies" book. You may laugh but the dummies guide was actually pretty useful and coupled with my existing experience it set me up for a 98% pass mark. Had I not done the prep work I doubt I would have been able to take every thing in during the week :)
 
physichull said:
Absolutely.

I did the APM equivalent and it was a total boring waste of time. I don't put anything I learnt there into practise in the real world and that's not because I'm a bad PM, its because its all largely unimportant and useless!

My employer just wanted me to do it so they can say everybody in the company has the pass certificate.
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Getting RPP qualified (just like Prince 2) is always going to help rather than hinder future work.
 
Is there anywhere that would be recommended for online at home courses for Prince2? Ideally would like to get the Foundation under my belt for potential upcoming job roles in the company.
 
I've got APMP and like others have said learnt nothing! It was the most boring week in my life and I genuinely considered throwing a sicky to get out of it. I learnt nothing at all, didnt revise and still managed to pass with > 75% marks (Pass is 52% IIRC)
 
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