PMP case studies
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The Project Management Professional (PMP)® is a certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI) that recognizes project managers who can evidence real project leadership and pass a demanding exam. PMI positions it as methodology-agnostic - it applies to predictive, hybrid, and agile ways of working, across industries and geographies - and reports 1.7M+ holders, making it the most widely held project certification. The PMP case studies are 5 cases and about 3,240 words.
1Two Tech Leads, One Release Date
A 14-person software team is six weeks from a contractually fixed release date. Its two tech leads disagree sharply: Priya wants to refactor the authentication service first; Marcus wants to ship on the current design and refactor afterwards.
651 words, about 3 min2Four Weeks You Do Not Have
Your regulatory-reporting project was baselined at 26 weeks and USD 800,000. At the end of week 8: PV = 260,000, EV = 210,000, AC = 245,000.
657 words, about 3 min3The Regulation Arrives One Month After Go-Live
Your customer-analytics platform is four months from go-live on a USD 2.4M budget with a 150,000 contingency. Compliance has just flagged a data-protection regulation taking effect in five months: it requires explicit consent capture and deletion of customer data within 30 days.
639 words, about 3 min4The Analyst Who Stopped Delivering
Ana, a senior business analyst, was your strongest performer on a 40-person programme. Six weeks ago the programme reorganised and she began reporting to a new functional manager.
657 words, about 3 min5Thirty-Eight Small Tweaks
You manage a hybrid engagement: a 12-month fixed-price contract with a customer product owner embedded in a Scrum team. In five sprints the product owner has added 38 backlog items, 22 of them accepted as "just a small tweak" without estimates.
636 words, about 3 min