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Software Development in a PRINCE2™ Environment —  A 4-day course

Synopsis

This course builds on the PRINCE2™ Project Management methodology providing training for team members who are working within a PRINCE2™ environment.

PRINCE2 projects require team members to clearly understand PRINCE2 responsibilities, processes and controls. This course provides this complementary training to ensure a smooth transition into PRINCE2-based software development for technical staff.

Attendees of this course will understand how to map a selected software lifecycle into the PRINCE2 stages, understand how to define a PRINCE2-compatible build-strategy, how to provide realistic estimations, how to develop a WBS plan and use the PRINCE2-based tolerances, reporting and escalation techniques to identify and manage risk and to track project progress. Attendees will understand the expectations of PRINCE2-trained Project Managers in the successful delivery of PRINCE2 projects. Core technologies addressed within the course include Use Cases, Test-techniques, Estimation techniques, Requirements Management, Acceptance Test, Inspections and Extreme programming techniques. Knowledge of PRINCE2 although useful, is not a prerequisite as a review of PRINCE2 is provided and the PRINCE2 method is the basis of the course structure.

Attendees will receive extensive classroom materials, white papers and example project planning documents and estimation toolsets.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the student will be have gained an understanding of:

  • Project Business Case
  • PRINCE2 overview
  • Integrating SDLC with PRINCE2
  • Customer Contact
  • Software lifecycles selection
  • PRINCE2 tolerances
  • Team organisation
  • Requirements gathering and management
  • Acceptance test design
  • Inspections and reviews
  • Time management
  • Quality Processes
  • Configuration Control
  • Implementation Strategies
  • Risk Management
  • Earned Value Analysis
  • Monitoring Techniques
  • Estimation calculations
  • The Project Management Board
  • Project Planning / Critical Path and Critical Chain
  • Project Tracking and Control
  • Project Review and Closure
  • Getting Acceptance

Suitable for

  • Lead analyst / programmers
  • Technical staff moving into a Prince project

Prerequisites

  • Exposure to software development
  • Familiarity with multi-person projects

Delivery

The training is instructor-led, with extensive exercises and discussion sessions.


Contents:

Introduction to PRINCE2

  • Benefits of PRINCE2
  • PRINCE2 Process Model
  • Components
  • Techniques
  • PRINCE2 Stages - Management and Technical
  • PRINCE2 Templates
  • Managing WOW!

Software Development Lifecycles using PRINCE2

  • RAD
  • Spiral
  • Waterfall
  • V-Model
  • Staged
  • Extreme Programming
  • RUP and PRINCE2
  • DSDM and PRINCE2
  • Stage Mapping
  • The CMM

Requirements Management

  • Business Case Development
  • Good Requirements and how to get them
  • Functional Requirements
  • Non-functional Requirements
  • Assumptions
  • JAD, Use Cases Prototypes, Story Boards
  • Prioritisation, MoSCoW Rules
  • Bunching
  • Change Control - Managing Changing Requirements
  • Change Log

Implementation Strategies

  • Low-risk Development
  • Nail Driving
  • Inspections
  • Reviews
  • Four-Eyes
  • XP

Organisation

  • Organisation
  • Project Board
  • Roles

roject Composition - Off-the-Shelf Packages

  • Evaluating the Options (SU5)
  • Managing Updates
  • Integration effort

Initiating a Project

  • The PID
  • Communication (IP4)
  • Team Approach to Decision Making
  • Leadership
  • Getting Buy-in

Quality in a Project Environment

  • PRINCE2 Quality Path
  • Quality Processes
  • Quality Planning (IP1)
  • Configuration Control
  • Testing and Test Strategies
  • Test Design and Automation
  • Validation & Verification
  • Designing Acceptance Tests
  • Quality Review Technique

Management of Risk

  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Tolerance
  • Risk Management
  • Risk Log

Repeatable Design Techniques

  • OO Design
  • UML, Use Cases and Class Diagrams
  • Reuse and reusability
  • Design Tools, Rose, Enterprise Architect, Visio

Product Based Planning

  • Product Based Planning
  • Establishing a Project
  • Lifecycle Mapping
  • Resource Allocation and Scheduling
  • PBS, Gantt and Pert Charts
  • Task Planning
  • Critical Chain
  • Reports and Reporting

Estimating the Task

  • Estimation techniques
  • Analogue
  • Delphi
  • KLOCs
  • Function Points
  • CoComo
  • "Been There- Done That"
  • OO Estimation

Controlling a Stage + Managing Stage Boundaries

  • Base-lining Your Project
  • Progress Monitoring
  • Defining Tolerances
  • Management Techniques
  • Management by Exception
  • Critical Path Monitoring
  • Time Management
  • Monitoring Techniques
  • Micro Milestones
  • Time Boxing
  • Daily Build and Smoke
  • When to Re-plan
  • Review and Rescheduling
  • Customer negotiations
  • Recovery techniques

Managing Product Delivery

  • Workpackages
  • Planning for Delivery
  • Deployment Teams
  • Cut-over Techniques and Planning
  • Data Takeover
  • Graceful Back-out
  • Acceptance Testing Criteria
  • Check pointing & Highlights

Closure

  • Handover
  • Post Project Review

Key Topics Review

  • Elements of Planning and Control
  • Requirements vs. Acceptance Tests
  • Successful Delivery

* PRINCE2™ is a Trade Mark of the Office of Government Commerce.

Prince2 training UK enquiries

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Prince2 training UK prices

For publicly scheduled training (individual places), see our UK training schedule.

In-house training for company groups is charged at a daily rate per group — see our In-House UK Training Guidelines.

Publicly Scheduled Training Locations

We currently run public training courses in the following locations:

  • London, UK
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
  • Birmingham, West Midlands, UK
  • Carshalton, Surrey, UK
  • Chester, North West, UK
  • Coventry, West Midlands, UK
  • Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • Glasgow, Scotland, UK
  • Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK
  • Manchester, North West, UK
  • Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK
  • Newark, Nottinghamshire, UK
  • Reading, Berkshire, UK
  • Slough, Berkshire, UK
  • Stevenage, Hertfordshire, UK
  • Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK
  • Wokingham, Berkshire, UK

Most UK public training courses are available on a monthly basis.

Please see the individual course outlines or our public training schedule for details.

In-house (on-site) training locations

We deliver in-house courses at client premises and/or training facilities in any part of the world which is practically and commercially accessible.

Our In-house training guidelines outline our basic requirements and our UK pricing structure. To estimate costs for training in other countries, simply convert to your local currency and then make a rough calculation of our tutor's costs for travelling to and staying at your location.


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GBdirect Ltd
Training Division
Bradford Design Exchange
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Please call between 0900 and 1700 (UK time) on Monday to Friday


South East Regional Office

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Training Division
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ELY
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United Kingdom

training@gbdirect.co.uk

Training: 0800 651 0338
General: +44 (0)870 200 7273
Finance: +44 (0)1353 615 174

Please call between 0900 and 1700 (UK time) on Monday to Friday


Please note:
Non-training enquiries should be directed, initially, to our UK national office in Bradford (West Yorkshire), even if the enquiry concerns services delivered in London or South/East England. Clients in London and the South East will typically be handled by staff working in the London or Cambridge areas.