People and the Project Context
An independent, in-depth study of the PRINCE2 7 people element and project context: why people became an integrated element, the commissioning organization and the business, directing, managing and delivering layers, customer, supplier and commercial relationships, choosing and onboarding role holders, leading successful change with impact assessment and readiness, leading temporary teams through negotiated work packages and psychological safety, stakeholder engagement and the communication management approach with official languages and accessibility duties, the seven performance targets with forecasting and exceptions, sustainability with carbon estimates and the Greening Government Strategy, tailoring people arrangements, exam scenario technique, and a capstone health hub case.
PRIN-120 12 lessons · 5 h 49 min
Offered by HSM University · PRINCE2 Prep
This is the Canadian version of this course. See the American version.
What you'll learn
- Explain why PRINCE2 7 makes people an integrated element and how people considerations run through the principles, practices and processes
- Map a project's commissioning organization, management layers and organizational and project ecosystems, and trace escalations through the layers
- Analyse customer, supplier and commercial relationships and the behaviour that different contract types encourage
- Select, onboard and support the people who hold PRINCE2 roles, including independent assurance and user representatives
- Plan change management as products, using change impact assessment, readiness measures and responses to resistance
- Lead temporary, mixed and part-time teams through negotiated work packages, trust-based delegation and psychological safety
- Analyse stakeholders and design a two-way communication management approach that is inclusive and evaluated
- Set and agree tolerances on the seven performance targets, forecast breaches and prepare exception reports with options
- Manage sustainability as a performance target, including carbon estimates, scopes, trade-offs and the Canadian or US policy context
- Tailor people-related arrangements for small, agile, program, multi-organization, public sector and international projects
- Apply a systematic reasoning method to people and context questions in Foundation and Practitioner style scenarios
- Apply the whole people element to a case from mandate to closure, including an exception with people causes
Course content
12 lessons · 5 h 49 min total · final exam
- 1 Why people are central to PRINCE2 7 28 min · quiz
- 2 The project context: organizations and management layers 27 min · quiz
- 3 Customer, supplier and commercial relationships 27 min · quiz
- 4 Project roles as people 28 min · quiz
- 5 Leading successful change 29 min · quiz
- 6 Leading successful teams 28 min · quiz
- 7 Communication and stakeholder engagement 29 min · quiz
- 8 Performance targets, tolerances and exceptions 31 min · quiz
- 9 Sustainability as a performance target 26 min · quiz
- 10 Tailoring people and context 31 min · quiz
- 11 People and context in exam scenarios 34 min · quiz
- 12 Capstone: applying the people element to a project 31 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
An independent, in-depth study of the PRINCE2 7 people element and project context: why people became an integrated element, the commissioning organization and the business, directing, managing and delivering layers, customer, supplier and commercial relationships, choosing and onboarding role holders, leading successful change with impact assessment and readiness, leading temporary teams through negotiated work packages and psychological safety, stakeholder engagement and the communication management approach with official languages and accessibility duties, the seven performance targets with forecasting and exceptions, sustainability with carbon estimates and the Greening Government Strategy, tailoring people arrangements, exam scenario technique, and a capstone health hub case.