Who are Logical Model Ltd, AXELOS and PEOPLECERT (and why do they Shout?)
I don’t know why AXELOS and PEOPLECERT shout their names! but AXELOS own PRINCE2®, PRINCE2-Agile® and a whole bunch more Intellectual Property under the Global Best Practice branding. AXELOS authorise Examining Institutes. PEOPLECERT are one of a handful of global EIs who can Accredit Training Organisations and…
…we (Logical Model Ltd) are an AXELOS Certified Partner and PEOPLECERT Accredited Training Organisation or ATO.
How Come You Are So Cheap?
We hope you have done a price comparison and so see we are cheap and non-restrictive. We are also as good or better than the rest; You can read more below if you care or need justification & explanation, but the short answer is we want you to buy our expensive, exclusive, HIGH VALUE Assured Outcome Delivery training. To do that you 1) Need to know we know our stuff so that you trust us and 2) we need you to be starting at PRINCE2 Practitioner and PMBoK-G PMP, PRINCE-Agile practitioner levels.
So we make the entry cheap to attract you and so demonstrate that you can be confidence we are a good partner.
I’m Just Interested in Getting Qualified, What’s My Quickest & Easiest Route?
OK, That makes sense. Lets work backwards from “I’m holding my PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner certificate in my hand – Yipee” – If you just want PRINCE2 Practitioner or just PRINCE2 Foundation then you don’t need all the steps below.
So prior to your third “Yipee” you sat three exams; lets tread the path.
PRINCE2-Agile
For the prince2agile Practitioner exam there were five (!) things you did
- You sat the exam and you passed! (because you had previouly…)
- …established your eligibility for the Agile Practitioner exam by having previously passed the prince2 practitioner exam (see below if you don’t yet have a p2 practitioner pass)
- You used your voucher to register for an exam at a time of your choice
- You used our website to buy a voucher to sit the exam (See Why Us? below)
- You studied our course materials, Revision aids and AXELOS practices exams carefully because they were FREE in the Exam Registration Fee.
If you don’t already hold Practitioner Eligibility it requires a now familiar list of steps!
PRINCE2 Practitioner
- You sat the Practitioner exam and you passed! (because you had previouly…)
- …established your eligibility for the PRINCE2 Practitioner exam by having previously passed at Foundation level (see below if you don’t yet have a Foundation pass)
- You used your voucher to register for a Practitioner exam at a time of your choice
- You used our website to buy a voucher to sit the exam (See Why Us? below)
- You studied our course materials, Revision aids and AXELOS practices exams carefully because they were FREE in the Exam Registration Fee.
PRINCE2 Foundation
If you don’t already hold Practitioner Eligibility it requires a now familiar (and shorter) list of steps!
- You sat the Foundation exam and you passed! (because you had previously…)
- …used your voucher to register for a Foundation exam at a time of your choice
- You used our website to buy a voucher to sit the Foundation exam (See Why Us? below)
- You studied our course materials, Revision aids and AXELOS practices exams carefully because they were FREE…
So working forward from today; Visit the shop & buy your voucher(s), Study hard (use our materials and support), Use the vouchers on PEOPLECERT’s system to register for the exam(s), Sit the exams, Celebrate
Why Should I Buy A Voucher From You?
Just go check-out other people’s prices. Ours are P2 foundation £165 & practitioner £266 (plus applicable taxes) & our’s include our training course. You can evaluate a lot of preview materials which equal a self-contained overview course suitable for people who never want to be qualified whether you buy or not.
Most other supplier’s offers are MUCH higher prices and either omit training or offer limited access to course materials (Eg 7! yes seven days) that lack exhaustive content – a quarter of an hour on google will prove it
If you have not investigated you won’t appreciate how good our offer is – Feel free to question us on anything you think we are not telling you p2@logicalmodel.net
Are they atractive enough reasons?
I Am Curious Enough To Care If Your Explanation is Short
Our competitor analysis repeatedly finds OTHER providers offer eLearning and foundation exams for prices between £250 and £850 plus VAT. Mostly they limit access to training materials. Some to as little as 7 days! (plus a further £99+vat for each 90day extension :-(. Practitioner is even more expensive.
Mostly our competition say “you need to spend another 65quid on the official manual”. We say that is because their materials are not exhaustive in the detail provided – Ours ARE detailed, with ours you DON’T need to read 327 pages of manual (Besides is not good as a training aid) and we match the 7 days plus the 90 days plus another 269 days in the exam cost.
We give you lots of preview access to our exhaustively detailed materials. That means you can fully evaluate that ours is the best without any lock-in financial or effort risk (By effort risk I mean it is a lot of work to study for the exams. Do you want to get 10 hours into study with growing realisation the materials you’ve paid for are not as good as you hoped? After 10hrs effort do you want to have to start again or do you soldier on and reach the exam feeling ill prepared, out of time and out of pocket?).
We also give you Reference Aids & Official & Additional practice exam questions, templates etc etc etc – if we don’t already include something others do that you think important then tell us what we are missing and it is likely that we will add it!
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What Do All These Organisations Contribute To My Exam Pass?
We (LML) create and deliver great quality training courses that have been reviewed by PEOPLECERT to confirm they meet AXELOS’ required standards. Review covers accuracy and completeness of our PRINCE2 descriptions, competency of our instructors and our exam booking procedures (also our complaints procedures, quality management and configuration management, staff training, internal communications….yawn – Lots of stuff to ensure you get reliable training
AXELOS own the intellectual property and set the exam, PEOPLECERT administer our accreditation for AXELOS and provide the exam distribution and delivery service.
Why We Give Away So Much And Charge So Little
Supermarkets sell bread at below cost price to get you through the door. Our real passion is to aid organisations to return benefits from their project based investments. Everyone else’s marketing will tell you that PRINCE2 is a complete method to manage projects, everything you need; we strongly dispute that as hype – we do think PRINCE2 can’t be beaten for what it is but it very definately is not everything you need to know to run projects – I’ll explain:…
…PRINCE is a Control Environment – It specifies two interfaces with the project manager: One up to the ‘Executive’ and one down to the Team Leaders. It DOES NOT tell you how to create a schedule, nor how to track progress achieved. These topics (and estimating etc etc) are explicitly omited from the syllabus and so from every Exam training course I’ve seen or heard of (we include a practical introduction, there is more study materials on our web-site). Equally PMBoK-Guide or the basis of the PMP exam give you all the tools & techniques but is almost devoid of the control environment. Between the two they are a perfect compliment to each other but still NOT everything required for project sucess
Project success requires more than a PRINCE2 badge so what we ‘Do’ is offer really cheap P2 (and PMP®) exam preparation. With those under your belt (cheap) you have the prerequisite knowledge for a meaningful conversation (and some training budget left! to pay us to help you with real value generation)
In short; we hope that after you are qualified and really want to put capabilities in ‘Outcome Delivery’ into place you’ll know how diligent and competent we are and then we can talk about real value-add services, then we can deal with PRINCE’s errors, omissions and weaknesses and capitalise on its strengths and insights- in an exam class it just isn’t possible or even helpful to criticise (or praise elements of ) PRINCE if your aim is the ‘badge’.
After all the badge is often what you need on a resumé / CV for job applications or amongst your people for inclusion in tender documents.
If You Read This Far…
You might like to know that we do do B-2-B onsite instructor led training. If you have a class-full of people then contact us BUT be aware that we passionately believe that exams and real world capability are two seperate focusses and for a business it is not the exams that deliver Return-On-Investment. Also; while the eStuff is cheap the in-person isn’t – Get in touch if your interested.
Have Another Question?
Get in touch and we’ll be happy to answer any questions you might have.