Management Products (Templates)

There are two main types of products in a project:

• Specialist products: those that are parts of the final product and would be handed over to the customer
• Management products: those that are created to support the Specialist Products (e.g. plans and reports)

PRINCE2 uses the term management products instead of documents, because they be presentations, videos, voice recordings, or even telephone calls; depending on how you tailor prince2; and remember that tailor to suit the project is one of our principles.

On the other hand, there’s no need to have a one to one relationship between the management products and physical realities: you can merge multiple management products into a single entity (e.g., issue register and risk register), or split one into multiple entities (e.g., change control approach).

The following are the PRINCE2 management products:

• Baselines
  • Management approaches
    • Benefits management approach
    • Change management approach
    • Commercial management approach
    • Communication management approach
    • Digital-and-data management approach
    • Issue management approach
    • Quality management approach
    • Risk management approach
    • Sustainability management approach
  • Business case
  • Plan
  • Product description
  • Project brief
  • Project initiation documentation
  • Project product description
  • Work package
• Project Log
  • Daily log
  • Issue register
  • Lessons log
  • Quality register
  • Risk register
  • Product register
• Reports
  • Checkpoint report
  • End project report
  • End stage report
  • Exception report
  • Highlight report
  • Issue report
  • Lessons report

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Written by Frank Turley.

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