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PRINCE2 7 Foundation study plan

PRINCE2 7 Foundation · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

PRINCE2 practices

  • Define the purpose, minimum requirements and key management products for each of the seven PRINCE2 practices.

  • Match every practice to the project roles that are accountable or responsible for its products.

  • Explain how the business case practice enables continued business justification throughout a project.

  • Draft a personal reference card for each practice using only your own wording.

Your checkpoint

Seven self-written practice reference cards, each covering purpose, minimum requirements, key products and accountable roles, produced without consulting notes on the final pass.

Week 2

PRINCE2 practices & Projects and the PRINCE2 project context

  • Apply the organizing and plans practices to an invented project scenario and identify at least three role conflicts to resolve.

  • Distinguish project work from business as usual using three examples drawn from your own organization.

  • Describe each aspect of project performance and name the PRINCE2 products that report on it.

  • Label the integrated elements of the PRINCE2 framework with the products, roles and documents that sit within each.

  • Answer 15 practice questions on practices and project context and log the reasoning behind each wrong answer.

Your checkpoint

A one-page framework map linking the integrated elements to the seven practices, accompanied by a scored 15-question practice set with written corrections.

Week 3

Projects and the PRINCE2 project context & PRINCE2 principles

  • State all seven principles from memory and give one worked example of each being applied and one of each being breached.

  • Explain how the principles constrain tailoring without dictating specific techniques or documentation.

  • Describe how project scale, complexity, commercial arrangements and organizational setting change the way PRINCE2 is applied.

  • Compare the project management team structure for a small low-risk project with that of a large multi-team project, justifying each difference.

Your checkpoint

A principles table with applied and breached examples for all seven principles, plus a two-column comparison of team structures for a small and a large project.

Week 4

PRINCE2 principles & People

  • Describe how each project management team role contributes to leading, delegating and communicating within a project.

  • Identify stakeholder engagement activities and assign them to the roles that own them across the project lifecycle.

  • Resolve five workplace-style scenarios in which team behaviour, communication or role ambiguity threatens project progress.

  • Complete a timed 60-question mock on domains 1 to 4 and analyse every incorrect answer down to the underlying fact missed.

Your checkpoint

A timed 60-question mock (domains 1 to 4) scored and fully reviewed, with a ranked list of your five weakest topics and a written correction for each.

Week 5

People & PRINCE2 processes

  • Sequence the seven processes and the activities within each from memory.

  • Describe the purpose, key inputs, key outputs and decision points of starting up a project, directing a project and initiating a project.

  • Map which project board decisions trigger movement between the early processes and who is responsible for each product.

  • Explain how the people element influences the way stages are authorised and work is delegated.

Your checkpoint

A hand-drawn process diagram showing all seven processes, their activities and the management products that trigger each transition, annotated with the roles involved.

Week 6

PRINCE2 processes & Tailoring PRINCE2 to the project environment

  • Describe the activities and products of controlling a stage, managing product delivery, managing a stage boundary and closing a project.

  • Explain the tailoring guidance supplied for each of the seven processes.

  • Separate what may legitimately be tailored from what must never be changed.

  • Justify tailoring decisions for a small low-risk project and for a large high-risk project across all seven processes.

Your checkpoint

A tailoring justification document covering all seven processes for two contrasting scenarios, with a one-line rationale for every adaptation made.

Week 7

PRINCE2 practices & Tailoring PRINCE2 to the project environment

  • Tailor each of the seven practices for a scenario by choosing between embedded, scaled and simplified options and justifying the choice.

  • Explain how PRINCE2 is adapted when the project sits inside a programme or a multi-project environment.

  • Re-test the two weakest topics identified in week 4 and confirm they are closed out.

  • Answer 40 tailoring and practice questions under time pressure and rewrite notes for any concept missed.

Your checkpoint

A 40-question tailoring and practices set scored at 80% or above, plus rewritten summary notes for every missed concept.

Week 8

PRINCE2 processes & Tailoring PRINCE2 to the project environment

  • Complete two full timed mock exams covering all six domains and score each against your week 4 baseline.

  • Redraw the seven-process model and the seven-practice card set from memory without prompts.

  • Convert every remaining recurring error into a single-line memory rule and rehearse those rules aloud.

  • Confirm exam-day logistics: question pacing, flag-and-return strategy and time allocation per question.

Your checkpoint

Two completed timed mocks at 75% or above, plus a one-page 'final rules' sheet containing every recurring error turned into a memory cue.

Milestones

Week 2: You can state the purpose and minimum requirements of all seven practices without notes, and score at least 75% on a 15-question practices and context set.

Week 4: You score at least 70% on a timed 60-question mock covering domains 1 to 4 and can explain the reason behind every incorrect answer you gave.

Week 6: You can draw the complete process model from memory and justify at least one tailoring decision for each of the seven processes in both a small and a large scenario.

Week 8: You score 75% or above on two consecutive full timed mocks and have no open review items left on your weak-topic list.