What the 7th edition added
PRINCE2 7 added people as an integrated element — change management, culture, leadership and team development placed at the centre of the model — and made sustainability a performance target alongside time, cost, quality, scope, benefits and risk.
Why it is like this
The previous editions managed products well and said almost nothing about the people producing them or the environmental cost, both of which had become the source of most project failures and most new reporting duties.
Not to be confused with
A soft-skills appendix. Sustainability is a target with tolerances, planned and reported like any other, which means it appears in the business case and in progress reporting.
In practice
The seven performance targets are now: benefits, cost, quality, risk, scope, time and sustainability.
Source: Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2, 7th edition (PeopleCert, 2023) — PRINCE2 7, §4 — people; §2 — project performance. Read on .
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Odd one out Check yourself
Three of these are PRINCE2 7 project performance targets. Which was added in the 7th edition?
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Sustainability
Sustainability joined the six existing targets, which is why tolerances can now be set on it.