Supporting the international growth of PRINCE2, Maven Training expands into Europe, the Middle East

Added: (Tue Feb 05 2008)

Pressbox (Press Release) - Maven Training is delighted to start 2008 with new training schemes operating in Poland, the Middle East and America.

In the USA, Maven has formed a partnership with Watermark Learning in Chicago.
Watermark Learning provides project management training and business analysis to a wide range of public and private sector organizations.

Rich Larson, Watermark: “We are very pleased to work with Maven Training to offer PRINCE2 to our customers. There is a growing interest in PRINCE2 as people recognize its compatibility with other methods, and Maven’s unrivalled reputation for providing innovative course materials means that we are confident of a first class training offering.”

Owned by the UK Office of Government Commerce, and launched in its current version in 1996, PRINCE2 rapidly becoming an international standard, with organizations around the world using it as their preferred approach to managing projects.

This growing interest in the method is supported by on-going translations of the manual, with German, French, Dutch and Polish versions due out imminently. Maven Training will be offering training in Poland during the first half of 2008 via a new partner: Centrum Rozwiązań Menedżerskich (CRM) SA. CRM has a long history of providing project management training and consultancy in Poland.

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Meanwhile, in Denmark Maven will be working with Peak Consulting to help satisfy the increasing demand for PRINCE2 training. Patrick Sorrentino of Peak Consulting says: “In Denmark, the interest of PRINCE2 is growing like crazy as the Danish government has introduced PRINCE2 and is supporting the use of PRINCE2 in both the public and private sectors. The number of exams are increasing by three hundred to four hundred percent per year. It is a very exciting time for us.”

Peak Consulting Group offers management consultancy services, including IT advisory services such as IT strategy and governance, Programme and Project management consultancy, project methodology implementation and training services through Maven Training and its own instructors.

“We chose Maven Training as a partner after carefully exploring the market,” Sorrentino says. “Maven is a serious and quality-aware training partner, with similar global visions as Peak.


Activities in the Middle East are also about to swing into action. Maven Training is opening offices in Dubai and will commence course offerings from the Spring. It has also formed a partnership with CMCS which offers project, portfolio and risk management training and consultancy to organisations based in the Middle East.

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So extensive is PRINCE2's use and applicability that in the last 12 months over 20,000 people have taken either the PRINCE2 Foundation or Practitioner Examinations. Currently more than 700 people a week take one or other of these exams.

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