PBP case studies

PBP · Put your knowledge to work in context.

PBP is a professional credential for practitioners who plan, deliver, and evaluate work within a structured project or business environment. It suits early- to mid-career professionals - project coordinators, analysts, team leads, and specialists moving into roles with delivery responsibility - who need to show they can reason with a shared body of terminology, principles, and controls rather than only execute tasks. The PBP case studies are 5 cases and about 4,437 words.

The 22% That Wasn't There

A shared-services group has merged three regional PMOs into one portfolio office. Each region has logged terminology differently for years.

894 words, about 4 min 2

Seventy-Four Must-Haves and a Date Nobody Chose

A regulatory filing date fixes go-live at 30 September, nine months away. The programme has a fixed envelope of 2.4 million and 11 people, two of whom are the only people who understand the pricing engine; both are committed to another programme at 30% availability until June.

879 words, about 4 min 3

Eleven Days to Cutover

Wave 2 of an ERP rollout covers 14 sites across six go-lives, the first in 11 days. The last two cutover rehearsals failed the same two exit criteria: migrated record rejects at 3.1% against a 0.5% threshold, and interface latency at 9 seconds against a 2-second service level.

901 words, about 5 min 4

Logins Up, Benefit Missing

A three-year transformation carries a benefits case of 7.3 million annual savings from year two. The benefits register lists 26 benefits; 40% are marked 'cashable', but baseline headcount and processing volumes were never independently validated - they came from a 2021 departmental estimate that has since been revised twice.

868 words, about 4 min 5

The Rating and the Job Offer

You are the business analyst on a payments modernisation. Internal audit has rated a finding 'high': the new refund workflow has no secondary authorisation above 10,000, and the legacy control that provided it is being decommissioned at cutover.

895 words, about 4 min