Dear Graham,
We offer connected training on this. The training is offered online and
begins with the APM (the Association of Project Managers certificate),
which provided a good introduction to the main ideas and tackles the
question of when is a formal PM approach most effective and what must be
considered in adopting such an approach. Our candidates work through
the course - but do not take the certificate. When they have completed
it, they go on to the Prince2 Foundation. If they take and complete
both courses, my department bears the cost, if they do not complete the
training, their college or department picks-up the tab (this, I find, is
a useful incentive) - I also offer a regular venue for the training to
enable them to book a time in their diaries to work through the courses
(I have found that the flexibility of online learning is also its
greatest weakness: so flexible, they never actually get round to doing
it).
I hope this is useful.
Yours
Andrew
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Subject: Project Management
Colleagues,
Providing project management training is
something I have never really cracked to my satisfaction. Of course
there is the PRINCE2 end, but what most people need is a step down from
that, but a step up from simple 'awareness of issues'. There are, of
course, books aplenty as well as some excellent materials provided by
the JISC and others, but I wonder if anybody out there has an
interesting approach they would want to share. Does anybody have
experience, for instance, oif using 'business games' for this sort of
thing? Can you point to really good people on the trainers circuit?
Regards
Graham
Confused, Aberyswyth
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