PRINCE2® 7 Foundation and Practitioner — Lesson 2: Foundation and Practitioner Practices, Plans, Quality, Risk, Issues, and Progress

Learning Objectives

• Explain the roles, information, criteria, dependencies, and decision points governing practices and planning.
• Implement or assess quality, risk and issues, and progress controls using controlled evidence and acceptance criteria.
• Evaluate the condition where a basic control passes but risk and issues fails because quality data, criteria, or dependency assumptions differ and select a proportionate corrective response.

Detailed Topics

• practices applied to the course scenario, expected behavior, stakeholders, controls, risks, and evidence.
• planning applied to the course scenario, expected behavior, stakeholders, controls, risks, and evidence.
• quality applied to the course scenario, expected behavior, stakeholders, controls, risks, and evidence.
• risk and issues applied to the course scenario, expected behavior, stakeholders, controls, risks, and evidence.
• progress controls applied to the course scenario, expected behavior, stakeholders, controls, risks, and evidence.

Instructor Demonstration

The instructor traces a project board and delivery team using Foundation and Practitioner guidance to control a changing initiative while preserving business justification and clear accountability. The walkthrough connects frameworks, processes, tools, decisions, and evidence captured in the Foundation and Practitioner project brief, stage plan, decision log, and tailored management-product set. It also tests the exception where a basic control passes but risk and issues fails because quality data, criteria, or dependency assumptions differ.

Hands-On Exercise

Complete a controlled PeopleCert-aligned exercise covering Foundation and Practitioner Practices, Plans, Quality, Risk, Issues, and Progress and preserve the verified result in the Foundation and Practitioner project brief, stage plan, decision log, and tailored management-product set.

1. Confirm scope, roles, criteria, prerequisites, information sources, dependencies, and acceptance conditions.
2. Execute the service, project, portfolio, risk, Lean, or operational workflow while recording decisions and evidence.
3. Test normal behavior, one boundary condition, and the stated exception using a controlled scenario.
4. Document findings, corrections, ownership, retest criteria, communication, and operational handover.

Scenario Analysis

• Identify which role, process, objective, control, information source, or decision most strongly influences practices.
• Compare two defensible responses and explain service, project, quality, risk, operational, and business trade-offs.
• Determine how the Foundation and Practitioner project brief, stage plan, decision log, and tailored management-product set should be approved, retained, reviewed, retested, and updated.

Troubleshooting Guidance

Start where expected behavior first differs from the observed result. Check scope, criteria, ownership, data quality, process sequence, policy alignment, version compatibility, dependencies, status, and evidence separately. Treat “a basic control passes but risk and issues fails because quality data, criteria, or dependency assumptions differ” as a hypothesis until records, interviews, configurations, calculations, and retest outcomes confirm the cause.

Validation Checklist

• Required roles, processes, criteria, controls, information, approvals, and dependencies are present.
• The Foundation and Practitioner project brief, stage plan, decision log, and tailored management-product set connects each conclusion to objective, reviewable evidence.
• Normal processing, a boundary condition, dependency behavior, and the stated exception were tested.
• Corrections, ownership, retest criteria, documentation, communication, and operational handover are complete.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Foundation and Practitioner Practices, Plans, Quality, Risk, Issues, and Progress, explain the resulting service, project, quality, risk, or operational behavior, and defend the outcome through the Foundation and Practitioner project brief, stage plan, decision log, and tailored management-product set.