One of the questions we're most commonly asked by delegates attending our PRINCE2® Training is "how does this apply in the real world". Whilst a good PRINCE2 Foundation or ;PRINCE2 Practitioner course should get you through your exam (which I'm pleased to say we're very successful at with a 97% pass rate), PRINCE2 is essentially a toolkit, and it's equally important to understand how you'll actually use these tools back at the office.

We achieve this by using PRINCE2 certified trainers who have extensive real-world experience as project managers who can help you to understand how the PRINCE2 processes and themes apply to real projects.

PLUS - everyone can now download free PRINCE2 Project Templates and PRINCE2 Case Studies from our Free Resources section.

Download the PRINCE2 Project Templates for a zipped folder stuffed with documents in Word and Excel format that you can use at every stage of your PRINCE2 project.

Download the PRINCE2 Case Studies for real-world insights in to how the British Council and Suffolk County Council have benefited from PRINCE2.

If you have any questions about the PRINCE2 method or are interested in attending a PRINCE2 training course, call our office on 01273 622272 or e-mail us at info@siliconbeachtraining.co.uk

One of the questions we're most commonly asked by delegates attending our PRINCE2® Training is "how does this apply in the real world". Whilst a good PRINCE2 Foundation or ;PRINCE2 Practitioner course should get you through your exam (which I'm pleased to say we're very successful at with a 97% pass rate), PRINCE2 is essentially a toolkit, and it's equally important to understand how you'll actually use these tools back at the office.

We achieve this by using PRINCE2 certified trainers who have extensive real-world experience as project managers who can help you to understand how the PRINCE2 processes and themes apply to real projects.

PLUS - everyone can now download free PRINCE2 Project Templates and PRINCE2 Case Studies from our Free Resources section.

Download the PRINCE2 Project Templates for a zipped folder stuffed with documents in Word and Excel format that you can use at every stage of your PRINCE2 project.

Download the PRINCE2 Case Studies for real-world insights in to how the British Council and Suffolk County Council have benefited from PRINCE2.

If you have any questions about the PRINCE2 method or are interested in attending a PRINCE2 training course, call our office on 01273 622272 or e-mail us at info@siliconbeachtraining.co.uk

Prior to attending our ITIL® Training courses we ask delegates to do a little pre-course reading to familiarise themselves with some key terms, which all helps when preparing for the ITIL Foundation Exam.

The following is the pre-course reading we provide before our ITIL Foundation Training course - but we thought we'd share it for free on the web for everyone else - we're just nice like that!

Silicon Beach Training run regular ITIL Foundation Training Courses.

It is strongly encouraged that you spend the time to read and understand the pre-course reading as this will aid you significantly during the course.

We've put together an interactive ITIL Training Quiz, to help you test your knowledge further.

Prior to attending our ITIL® Training courses we ask delegates to do a little pre-course reading to familiarise themselves with some key terms, which all helps when preparing for the ITIL Foundation Exam.

The following is the pre-course reading we provide before our ITIL Foundation Training course - but we thought we'd share it for free on the web for everyone else - we're just nice like that!

Silicon Beach Training run regular ITIL Foundation Training Courses.

It is strongly encouraged that you spend the time to read and understand the pre-course reading as this will aid you significantly during the course.

We've put together an interactive ITIL Training Quiz, to help you test your knowledge further.

MSP® (which stands for Managing Successful Programmes) is the de-facto standard methodology for Programme Management in the UK.

Silicon Beach Training offer MSP Trainingin Brighton, Sussex, including MSP Foundation Training and MSP Practitioner Training

What is a Programme?

Whilst Project Management is about controlling a project, Programme Management is concerned with controlling a group of related projects.

How to Define a Programme with MSP

MSP provides a structured framework for managing programmes, and one of the very first of these steps is to define your Programme.

The basis for developing the programme definition in MSP is The Programme Brief. This also provides the basis for the programme’s strategies and plans for programme governance.  The Programme Brief is a very important document, as it provides the basis for deciding whether to even proceed with the programme or not! Detailed planning of the programme is essential, and the Programme Brief is where this is undertaken.

The MSP Programme Brief is used as the starting point for creating a Programme Definition Document. This document outlines

• What your MSP programme is going to do
• How it's going to do it
• Who is involved in the Programme
• How the Programme will be controlled
• The justification for going forward with the Programme

From this point, the Business Case and governance are now developed.

You can learn more about the structure of MSP by attending one of our accredited MSP Foundation Training or MSP Practitioner Training courses in Brighton, Sussex.

For those of you that know Brighton, you can be a testament to the fact that it is filled with a myriad of great places to eat and drink for every kind of consumer. When you’re here for just a short time knowing where to go on your lunch break is of great importance to most!

Don’t stick to the boring sandwich but taste a bit of Brighton without breaking the bank, here are a few of our favorites...... our 7 lunch wonders of Brighton!

Our key to pricing:

£ - under a fiver

££ - between £5 and £10

Pastrami Sandwich from Flour Pot, Image courtesy of Restaurants Brighton

There are many different ways to manage something and the methodologies of PRINCE2®, Agile, SCRUM and ITIL® help. In this post our expert John A G Smith explains how a system or 2 can keep our world spinning on the correct axis!

It’s all about systems. Whether you’re looking at something as small as an individual business task or as large as a whole company, they’re all systems. We’re surrounded by the things. We live on a planet within the solar system. Our shower is supplied by a hot water system. I’m writing this on a computer system. Indeed we are each our own individual system: the human body.

Image - Panel 6 Solar Systemm, Ralph Buckley

So what, I hear you say, is a system? And what qualifies each mentioned above as one of them?

It is generally accepted that a system has five components: Inputs, outputs, processes, stores and a boundary.

We have created our comprehensive downloadable PRINCE2® Practitioner Exam Tips eBook to help delegates who will be taking the PRINCE2 Practitioner examination.

Just knowing the PRINCE2 syllabus is not necessarily enough to get you through the PRINCE2 Practitioner Exam – learning some good exam techniques can significantly increase your chances.

This guide is used by delegates on our PRINCE2 Practitioner Training course and we have now made it available to download here for all those who are interested in the PRINCE2 Practitioner Qualification.

Please note that this guide alone will not prepare delegates to sit the PRINCE2 Practitioner Exam! It is intended to be used in conjunction with our PRINCE2 Training courses. We offer both thePRINCE2 Foundation Training course andPRINCE2 Practitioner Training course.

In this guide you will find helpful hints on how to manage the booklets and read the information you are provided with, as well as how to manage time during the examination, and some techniques you can use for answering the different styles of questions.

We hope that this will be a helpful guide for completing the sample PRINCE2 Practitioner papers you will be provided with. If  you have any of your own tips you would like to add - feel free to add them in the comments section below.

For more help learning PRINCE2, download our other project management eBook Managing a Project - Getting Started.