Project Management
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TLS Associates Ltd has extensive experience of delivering Project Management Training to clients in both the private and public sectors. Training includes PRINCE 2 examination courses, at both Foundation and Practitioner levels in the UK, Prague, Brussels, Slovakia, The Netherlands and Moscow. Clients include: Ministry of Defence, the Home Office and DHL.
Related training includes: customised Project Management courses, Project Leadership, Project Communication, Benefits Realisation and Business Case overview.
Good project management helps to ensure that risks are identified and managed appropriately, and objectives and benefits are achieved within budget, within time and to the required quality.
PRINCE2
PRINCE2 is recognised as a world-class international product and is the standard method for project management. It is a project management method designed to provide a framework covering the wide variety of disciplines and activities required within a project. The focus throughout PRINCE2 is on the Business Case, which describes the rationale and business justification for the project. The Business Case drives all the project management processes, from initial project set-up through to successful finish.
PRINCE (which stands for Projects in Controlled Environments) was first developed by the UK government in 1989 as the standard approach to IT project management for central government. Since then, the method has been enhanced to become a generic, best practice approach suitable for the management of all types of projects, and has a proven record outside both IT and government sectors. PRINCE2 has been widely adopted and adapted by both the public and private sectors and is now the UK's de facto standard for project management and is practiced worldwide.
PRINCE2 is owned by The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) and accreditation schemes are run by The APM Group (APMG) on their behalf.
Using PRINCE2 in your projects gives you common systems, procedures and language. The PRINCE2 method embodies established and proven best practice across the wide cross section of organisations who have contributed to its evolution since the 1980s. By adopting PRINCE2 as your project management method, you are benefiting from lessons learned by these other organisations.
PRINCE2's formal recognition of responsibilities within a project, together with its focus on what a project is to deliver (the why, when and for whom) provides your organisation's projects with:
- A common, consistent approach
- A controlled and organised start, middle and end
- Regular reviews of progress against plan
- Assurance that the project continues to have a business justification
- Flexible decision points
- Management control of any deviations from the plan
- The involvement of management and stakeholders at the right time and place during the project
- Good communication channels between the project, project management, and the rest of the organisation
- A means of capturing and sharing lessons learned
- A route to increasing the project management skills and competences of the organisation's staff at all levels
Publishers of the Manual and other PRINCE2 publications
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Norwich NR3 1PD
Tel - +44 (0)870 600 5522
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Email - esupport@theso.co.uk
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