PRINCE2 7 Practitioner case studies
PRINCE2 7 Practitioner · Put your knowledge to work in context.
PRINCE2 Project Management Practitioner (Version 7) is the higher-level qualification in the PRINCE2 project management certification path offered by PeopleCert. Where the Foundation level tests recall of the method's principles, themes and processes, the Practitioner level tests whether you can take that method and actually use it - applying it to a described project situation, judging what to tailor, and choosing a defensible course of action rather than reciting a definition. The PRINCE2 7 Practitioner case studies are 5 cases and about 3,843 words.
1Permit Portal: the benefit that stopped being credible
Northbridge Council approved the Permit Portal 14 months ago: a £3.1m budget, 4,200 traders moved off paper permits, and £1.9m of projected efficiency savings. At month 14, £2.35m is spent, three of five products are delivered, and payments-module testing is 11 weeks late after two failed cycles.
767 words, about 4 min2Two sites, one team, no trust
Meridian Bank's Loyalty Rewards project is five months into a five-month-out regulatory deadline. Eleven delivery staff are split between Leeds and a supplier hub in Kraków; three of five business-analyst posts are vacant, overtime has run at 40% for eight weeks, and two analysts resigned last month.
803 words, about 4 min3Quality criteria nobody can test
Riverdale Trust's Instrument Tracking project will track 12,000 sterile instrument sets using barcode scanning. The project product description's acceptance criteria read "the system must be fast and reliable" and "ward staff must be satisfied".
764 words, about 4 min4The work package that broke in week three
Stage 3 of a five-stage logistics replatform has ±£60k and ±3 weeks of tolerance, set by the board. The project manager issued a work package for the route-optimisation engine to an internal team manager: six weeks, £180k, covering products 3, 4 and 5.
713 words, about 4 min5PRINCE2 in a six-week release cycle
Northwind Claims has a nine-person in-house team delivering a £480k customer-facing claims front end against a fixed seven-month regulatory deadline. The team has run two-week Scrum sprints for three years, uses a single product owner and a consistent definition of done.
796 words, about 4 min