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Building Project Careers with PRINCE2™, PRINCE2 Agile™, MSP™, MoP™ and MoR™4 certification from AXELOS

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It is important to develop your project, programme and portfolio management skills. Many organisations use the highly popular frameworks which have been developed by AXELOS™ and you can gain your certification with Project Plus to help you perform and use these frameworks.

Classroom Training

We are accredited to deliver the world’s most popular project, programme and portfolio frameworks certification courses and you can learn in our classroom courses in Wellington and Auckland.

You can gain Foundation certification which covers all of the knowledge or you can obtain both Foundation and Practitioner certification which demonstrates your ability to apply your knowledge.

To reflect the increased costs of exams and manuals, the prices for Axelos courses have been increased for courses from 1 January 2023. Classroom Foundation level courses now cost $2695 plus GST and combined Foundation and Practitioner level courses now cost $3795 plus GST.

You can choose from a wide choice of dates in the first quarter of 2023 to gain your certification, and get upskilled and ready to take your career forward.

Click on the highlighted courses below for more details, dates and to register

• PRINCE2. PRINCE2 6th edition is based upon the tried and tested experience of project management practitioners around the world, and provides the themes, principles, and processes to deliver successful projects of any size and complexity.

• PRINCE2 Agile. PRINCE2 Agile blends the flexibility and responsiveness of Agile with the defined governance of PRINCE2.

• Managing Successful Programmes MSP. MSP (Managing Successful Programmes), 5th edition is the “go to” best practice programme management framework, designed to align programmes and projects with organisational strategy and enable enterprise agility. MSP focuses on the delivery of outcomes and benefits, while mitigating risk and actively engaging stakeholders.

• Management of Portfolios MoP. MoP is comprised of principles, techniques, and practices that will assist in the successful adoption of portfolio management. It is concerned with how to choose the optimal projects and programmes to suit your organisation’s strategic objectives and how to monitor the execution of the projects to optimise the value of the investment portfolio. The focus is on doing the right projects.

• Management of Risk M_o_R4. This certification is only at the Practitioner level and it demonstrates that you understand how to apply and tailor M_o_R® 4 and apply practical risk management in your organisation to enable the creation and protection of value.

Our trainers are all Kiwis, who live in Auckland and Wellington, where we deliver our classroom courses. They each have many years’ training delivery experience and project management experience and are accredited for each course by PeopleCert on behalf of Axelos. They each regularly receive very positive feedback from happy participants.

Project Plus is an Accredited Training Organisation. We are accredited by PeopleCert on behalf of AXELOS and can deliver their certification training courses and invigilate the exams in our classrooms.

All courses are fully catered so that you can concentrate on learning and we provide a paperback copy of your course handbook before the course to allow you to complete some pre course study.

Useful articles about how people have used the AXELOS frameworks can be found at the Axelos Resource Hub.

AXELOS, PRINCE2, PRINCE2 Agile, MSP, MoP and MoR are trade marks of Axelos Limited. All rights reserved.

Classroom Training, Covid Health and Safety

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When you join our classroom training courses you can be confident that we comply with all Health and Safety guidelines and regulations including the COVID 19 Protection Framework (Traffic Lights). This article has been updated in June 2022.

Our goal is to keep all of our people and all of our customers safe while you are progressing your professional development with Project Plus.

All of our people have two doses of the Covid vaccine and a booster dose.

Since the My Vaccine Pass was shelved we still require all of our customers who attend our classroom training courses to wear face coverings especially when you are walking near food or drink facilities.

If you become unwell during your course we will ask you to leave and you can  join your course at a later date for no extra charge.

We offer many self paced online training courses if you cannot meet our health and safety requirements for Classroom Training Courses as set out in Our Training Terms and Conditions.  

It is important that we are able to help you progress your career development during the pandemic and we value your support and cooperation. Click here for classroom certification courses and for classroom skills and knowledge project management courses.

Management of Portfolios MoP™ Training Course

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The MoP (Management of Portfolios) training course developed by AXELOS™ provides a set of principles, techniques and practices to introduce or re-energise portfolio management. MoP helps organisations consistently answer the fundamental question: Are we sure these investments are the best for us and will they help us achieve our strategic objectives?

Portfolio management helps organisations make decisions about which are the most efficient projects and programmes to take the organisation forward to deliver their strategies. While project and programme management is concerned with managing  projects well, portfolio management is concerned with choosing to implement the right projects.

MoP defines portfolio management as: “A coordinated collection of strategic processes and decisions that together enable the most effective balance of organisational change and business as usual.” MoP is a good framework that enables organisations to allocate budgets when there are competing demands.

Portfolio management builds on, and better coordinates, existing processes such as strategic planning, investment appraisal and project and programme management. Portfolio management is not concerned with the detailed management of these projects and programmes; rather, it’s value is in helping organisations to choose which projects and programmes to select and support to deliver the organisational objectives.

Unlike most methods, all portfolio management principles, cycles and practices are used at the same time, though at varying levels of intensity, depending on the organisation and the environment in which it works.

We offer MoP training courses in Wellington throughout the year.

AXELOS™ and MoP™ are trade marks of Axelos Limited. All rights reserved.