What It Is

PRINCE2 (Projects IN Controlled Environments) 7th Edition is a process-based project management framework. It provides reliable governance, decision rights, and controlled value delivery across projects of any scale or complexity. The methodology uses a "7s" structure: principles, practices, and processes, emphasizing tailoring, sustainability, and people.

Key Components

• **7 PrinciplesGuiding obligations like continued business justification, manage by exception, manage by stages, tailoring, product focus, defined roles, learn from experience.
• **7 PracticesBusiness case, organizing, plans, quality, risk, issues, progress – applied continuously via management products (e.g., PID, registers).
• **7 ProcessesStarting Up, Directing, Initiating, Controlling a Stage, Managing Product Delivery, Stage Boundaries, Closing. Individual certification (Foundation, Practitioner) available; no organizational certification.

Why Organizations Use It

• Repeatable governance model for portfolios and audits.
• Exception-based escalation reduces executive burden.
• Tailored success outperforms dogmatic use.
• Aligns strategy to delivery in regulated sectors.
• Builds stakeholder trust via clear accountability.

Implementation Overview

Phased: executive alignment, gap analysis, tailoring blueprint, training, pilots, institutionalization. Suits all sizes/industries; key activities include role definition, tolerances, lessons logs. Focus on pilots for scalability.

What It Is

UAE PDPL (Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 Concerning the Protection of Personal Data) is a comprehensive federal regulation establishing the UAE's first economy-wide framework for personal data processing. Effective from 2 January 2022, it protects privacy onshore while aligning with global norms like GDPR, using a risk-based approach with controls for fairness, transparency, and security.

Key Components

• Core principles: lawfulness, purpose limitation, minimization, accuracy, storage limitation, security, accountability.
• Obligations: DPO appointment, DPIAs for high-risk processing, RoPA maintenance, breach notification.
• Data subject rights: access, portability, correction, erasure, objection, automated decision safeguards.
• Compliance model: enforced by UAE Data Office with administrative penalties.

Why Organizations Use It

• Mandatory for onshore entities and extraterritorial processors of UAE residents' data.
• Mitigates fines (up to AED 5M), enhances cybersecurity, builds trust.
• Enables digital economy participation, GDPR synergy for multinationals.

Implementation Overview

• Phased: gap analysis, data mapping, controls design, operationalization, monitoring.
• Applies to private sector (excl. free zones, sectoral data); risk-based for all sizes.