Prepare2Lead
prepare2lead.com/communityCareer progression for experienced project professionals. Same career, better role, better pay.
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If you are ready to accelerate your project career, your team, or the practice you lead, you are in the right place.
James J Bailey has spent 30 years running projects and programmes across government, infrastructure, technology and financial services. Programmes valued at more than £1 billion.
SCCleared.PeopleCertAuthorisedPRINCE2Trainer.BetterBusinessCasesPractitioner.Authorof3bookson project management.
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Exam Centre
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Senior project, PMO, governance and business case leadership. Contract or permanent. Consulting for practices that need the problem named before it is fixed.
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What is Prepare2Lead?
Most project professionals are told to get another qualification. Qualifications matter, but they are not what decides who gets the role. 4 things can block progression: education, experience, skills and exposure. Prepare2Lead helps you strengthen education, skills and exposure. It cannot give you experience you have not earned.
Find your career blockerWhat is the Exam Centre?
Reading the manual again feels like studying. It is not what the exam asks you to do. The Exam Centre gives you 4 full PRINCE2 mocks, free, at real length and real timing, and a breakdown by topic rather than a bare score, so you know which sections would put your result at risk before you book. Official vouchers and study materials are there when you are ready.
Free PRINCE2 mock examsWhat is Compalley?
Practices lose work they should win, and lose people they meant to keep, for the same reason: capability that nobody outside the building can see. Compalley works on how a practice wins work, how it develops and deploys its people, and how governance and information make good performance repeatable rather than accidental. As an accredited training organisation, certification runs through the same door.
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Books
Write a Strong Project Initiation Document shows how to clarify scope, align the team and take control from day 1 with a professional PID. It focuses on creating a document that remains useful after approval, not one that is immediately forgotten.
Write a Winning Business Case explains how to compare options, build stakeholder confidence and turn an idea into a case for investment. It makes costs, benefits, risks and choices easier to explain and defend.
Write an Effective Project Execution Plan turns strategy into delivery, with practical guidance for control, risk and momentum. It shows how to convert the agreed approach into coordinated action.