How to Differentiate Between PRINCE2 Training Providers

Written by | Published August 9, 2011

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All PRINCE2 training providers must be accredited by APMG in order to offer official PRINCE2 courses. This often leads to the misconception that all PRINCE2 courses are the same, and that the only differentiating factor is price.

That’s simply not the case…

Read a list of common misconceptions about PRINCE2

If you see a 5-day PRINCE2 Practitioner Course advertised for £600, stop and ask yourself how that course is so cheap.

The main way to get the price down, is to cram more delegates in to the training room. We’ve come across some PRINCE2 training providers who will fill courses up to 20 people. That’s right – TWENTY! That’s an insane number of people for any training course – let along an intensive workshop like PRINCE2.

You can also cut costs by using the cheapest PRINCE2 trainers (which tend to be those with less experience) and by using lower quality training materials.

Our PRINCE2 courses will never be the cheapest on the market, but we’re quite happy with that.

We’re confident that for the rates we charge, our PRINCE2 courses are excellent value for money for the high quality we provide.

Here’s what sets us apart from the rest – you might want to use this as the basis for questions to ask PRINCE2 course providers if you’re shopping around.

Why are our PRINCE2 Courses different?

Maximum Group Size of 12

PRINCE2 Training RoomHaving the time to have your questions answered is vital on a PRINCE2 course. This will not only help you to pass your PRINCE2 Practitioner Exam – but will be a great help in relating what you are learning to your own work, helping you to start implementing it faster when you get back to the office.

In a group of 20 – we believe you have no hope of having your questions answered effectively – so we NEVER have more than 12 people on a course.

Experienced Project Managers as PRINCE2 Trainers

Just holding a PRINCE2 qualification doesn’t make you a brilliant project manager – and the same applies to trainers.

All of our trainers have proven project management expertise from using PRINCE2 on projects in the real world.

This makes it easy for them to:

  1. Help you to pass your PRINCE2 Practitioner exam, which is all about applying the methodology to real-world scenarios
  2. Give you advice that is based on hard-won experience on how to effectively apply PRINCE2 to your own projects when you return to the office

We NEVER use trainers who have just learned the PRINCE2  methodology in order to teach and have not applied it for real

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PRINCE2 Crossword

Written by | Published June 30, 2011

prince2-training-crosswordWe do our best when designing the materials for our PRINCE2 Training courses to make sure that we provide plenty of variety, so that the content doesn’t become too dry.

Just reading through the PRINCE2 manual isn’t an effective way of learning. For that reason, we provide a comprehensive pre-course work book with PRINCE2 revision advice and lots of quizzes to help attendees to take everything in.

To provide even MORE variety to your PRINCE2 revision – we’ve also put together this PRINCE2 Crossword.

Read through the PRINCE2 statements in our PRINCE2 Crossword Revision post – then download and print off this PRINCE2 Crossword PDF and see how you get on (we’ve also provided a download for the solution at the bottom of  the revision post.

But DON’T CHEAT! Download the solution when you’ve finished and see if you got all of the answers right!

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PRINCE 2 Exam Tips – Our Top 7 Tips for Success

Written by | Published April 8, 2011

prince2-trainig-exam7 PRINCE2 exam tips to help increase your chances of passing!

If you’re thinking of attending a PRINCE2 Training course including the PRINCE2 Foundation and/or PRINCE2 Practitioner exam, check out these top tips to help you perform to your best

We run regular PRINCE2 Foundation Training and PRINCE2 Practitioner Training courses in Brighton, Sussex.

  1. Do your pre-course reading from the PRINCE2 manual THOROUGHLY! It sounds logical but many people skim read the PRINCE2 manual or miss bits. The five-day PRINCE2 Practitioner course is intensive, so the more pre-reading you have completed the more you will take in on during the course.
  2. The PRINCE2 exams are open book, which means you can use your PRINCE2 manual but not your own notes or documents. HOWEVER, you can put notes all over your PRINCE2 manual and that’s allowed! So whether it’s a process diagram or a one word memory trigger, use all of the white spaces in the manual (inside covers too!) with your notes.
  3. Swot up on the product breakdown structure; this is key to many of the questions in the PRINCE2 exams. If you find it hard to interpret the product symbols, include notes in your PRINCE2 manual. An important concept to get your head round is how the PBS relates to product flow diagrams. If you revise more on any area make it the PBS!
  4. Watch out for multiple choice answers that include the words “must” or “always”. There are not many straight and simple answers in the PRINCE2 exams and these sort of questions can catch you out!
  5. Some questions may require the same answer twice in a row in the same PRINCE2 exam – for example “who would be the most suitable person for this task?”. Don’t worry about using the same person for both answers if you are confident that it is correct. The questions are not related to each other and just because you’re giving the same answer doesn’t mean it will be wrong in either question!
  6. This sounds silly – but don’t always answer with what common sense dictates should happen! The PRINCE2 exams look for the ideal application of the PRICNE2 methodology in specific scenarios. In real life (where you are working with other people who haven’t got a PRINCE2 certification) you may well do something different – but that isn’t necessarily the right answer! This sometimes catches out people who are already experienced project managers but who don’t use PRINCE2.
  7. Remember your ID. The invigilator won’t let you sit the PRINCE2 exams without it. If you have got married and your name has changed since you registered or took the PRINCE2 Foundation exam then take the appropriate paperwork. APMG regularly spot check exams to make sure guidelines are being followed and your training provider won’t let you bend the rules!

That’s it! Good luck with your PRINCE2 exams!

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