Achieving Praxis Foundation and Practitioner Certification Training

• Characteristics and core elements 
• Areas of complexity 
• Triple constraint expansion 

• Goals 
• Life cycle phases 
• Governance mechanisms 
• Serial project life cycle 
• Parallel project life cycle 
• Agile project characteristics 
• Programme life cycle phases 
• Portfolio life cycle phases 

• Goals 
• Sponsor Characteristics 

• Goals 
• Knowledge management within the P3 management organisation. 

• Goals 
• CMMI capability and maturity levels 

• Principles, goals, responsibilities, and procedure 
• The four organisation structure levels for individual projects and programmes 
• Organisation Management Plan 

• Stakeholder Management principles, goals, responsibilities, and procedures 
• Stakeholder management documentation 

• Principles, goals, and responsibilities 
• Business Case structure, content, and evolution 

Delivery plan content 

• Control documentation 
• Tolerances 

• Principles, goals, and responsibilities 
• Assurance Management Plan 

• Principles, goals, responsibilities, and procedures 
• Information Management Plan. 

• Terms 
• Scope Management Plan. 
• Scope documentation: 
• Product documentation: 
• Definition techniques: breakdown structures. 
• Requirements Management 
• Solutions Development 
• Benefits Management 
• Change Control 
• Configuration Management 

• Characteristics of a well-specified requirement. 
• Value management. 

• Principles, goals, responsibilities, and procedure 
• Gantt Charts 
• Approaches to estimating. 
• Network Diagrams 
• Critical Path Analysis 

• Principles, goals, responsibilities, and procedure 
• Investment Appraisal techniques. 
• Funding. 
• Budgeting and Cost Control. 
• P3 budget components 
• Financial Management Plan. 
• Investment Appraisal 
• Funding 
• Budgeting and Cost Control 

• Principles, goals, responsibilities, and procedure 
• Risk attitude and risk appetite. 
• Identifying risks and appropriate sources of information. 
• Qualitative and quantitative techniques for assessing threats and opportunities. 
• Risk response actions. 
• Risk Management documentation 
• Application of Change Management. 
• Understand the application of Resource Management. 
• Understand the application of Negotiation techniques 

• Principles, goals, responsibilities, and procedure 
• Change management models 
• Change Management Plan. 

• Principles, goals, responsibilities, and procedure 
• Resource Management Plan 
• Contract Management. 
• Contract information and ‘conditions’. 
• Mobilisation. 
• Procurement. 

• Identify a Project or Programme Process. 
• Understand the purpose of a: 
• Daily Log 
• Lessons Log 
• Brief 
• Definition Plan 
• Issue Register 
• Project Sponsor Role & Responsibilities 
• Project or Programme Process Definition 
• Project or Programme Delivery Definition 
• Manage Boundaries Process. 
• Develop Products Process. 
• Close a Project or Programme Process. 
• Follow-on Actions Report. 
• Realise Benefits Process. 

• Communication Goals 
• David Berlo’s model 
• Effectiveness of communication and potential barriers. 

• Goals 
• Conflict in team development. 
• Causes and sources of conflict. 
• Models for conflict resolution 

• Goals 
• Elements of a SMART objective. 
• MoSCoW (Must-have, Should-have, Could-have, and Won’t-have, or Will not have right now) technique of prioritisation. 

• Goals 
• Transactional leader and a transformational leader. 
• Leadership Models 
• Models for motivation: 
• Goals of Influencing. 
• Principles of ethical and professional behaviour. 

• Influence Models 
• Understand the goals of Negotiation. 
• Understand the difference between competitive and collaborative negotiation. 

Shell’s five styles of negotiation. 

• Goals 
• Teamwork Models 

• 75 simple multiple-choice questions
• 60 minutes duration
• Closed book
• 50% pass mark (38 marks out of 75)

• Tailor the typical activities within the Identify a Project or Programme Process. 
• Characteristics of a Sponsor. 
• Leadership models. 
• Knowledge Management. 
• Stakeholder Management. 
• Influencing techniques. 

• Apply the typical activities within the Define a Project or Programme Process. 
• Organisation Management. 
• Teamwork models. 
• Conflict Management models. 

• Apply the typical activities within the Boundaries Process. 
• Application of Assurance. 

• Apply the typical activities within the Develop a Project or Programme Process. 
• Delegation techniques. 

Apply the typical activities within the Close a Project or Programme Process. 

Apply the typical activities within the Benefits Realisation Process. 

• Complex multiple-choice questions
• 2 ½ hours duration
• Open book (only the Praxis Framework can be referred to)
• 50% pass mark (40 marks out of 80)