Certified PM² Practitioner by PM² GROUP Courseware

Dear students, welcome to the PM2 Practitioner Certification Preparation Course. Welcome back to all of you who already have your PM2 Foundation Certification and welcome abroad to all of you who are taking directly your PM2 Practitioner Certification. A warm welcome from a project management enthusiast.

This course is entirely built with the purpose of preparing you to obtain your PM2 Practitioner Certification. Avoiding scope creep was a priority, so the course includes what you need for the certification, and no more than that. For all of you that already know PM2 you will have the chance to apply it to real projects and for those how are new we will walk you first through the methodology and end at the same point.

The material in front of you is articulated around these objectives:
- Giving you a deep view of PM² in the context of general project management.
- Teaching you the fundamentals of the PM2 in preparation for the practitioner certification exam.
- Helping you concretely manage projects by discussing advanced project management techniques and putting them in the context of PM².
- Getting you to deeply understand PM² methodology so that you are able to apply, tailor and integrate it into real-world project environments.

As the PM2 Practitioner Certification validates not only your theoretical knowledge, but also your practical ability to integrate PM2 principles into projects’ real-world environments, the exam is case-based. Therefore, the training combines theoretical explanations with project examples, points of reflection, guided activities, and questions.
- Theoretical explanations: the PM2 methodology, the templates, checklists, and tools & templates will guide you throughout the course.
- Project examples: the course introduces two examples so that they can be developed using PM2 best practices. One is a real example of a university project of engineering students using PM2. And the other is a fake project related to the European Parliament elections.
- Reflection and guided activities: questioning and putting into practice the acquired knowledge, mainly based on the project examples.
- Questions: a set of case-based questions based on real experiences and contexts in which PM2 best practices must be applied. You will find sixteen different scenarios with the aim of covering a high variety of sectors.

One of the challenges of this training is to cope with the diverse needs between students with or without prior PM2 knowledge. To support this the course slides have distinct colors: orange slides for the foundation concepts and blue slides for the practitioner concepts. But don’t worry, your trainer will take care of combining them and making sure you acquire the required knowledge.

I wouldn’t like to finish without pointing out that if you are reading this text, it is because you are aware of PM2 relevance and importance. PM2 has not only filled an existing gap for simple, effective, and easily adaptable project management methodologies, but also does it with the full recognition of the European Commission.