Baselines

There are three types of documents (management products) in PRINCE2:

• Reports: There are different instances of each report, and once an instance is created, it remains fixed forever. For example, you may have a highlight report every month. There’s one highlight report for February 2025, and it always stays fixed.
• Project log: Items categorized as project log are dynamic records that always change. An issue register, for example, may be updated multiple times per day to enter new issues or update the status and information of the existing ones.
• Baselines: When it comes to important documents that create a foundation and common understanding for the project, we need them to have a change control process, because they help us meet expectations. When they should be updated, they will be carefully versioned, and then certain people need to approve it. When approved, the new version will replace the old one and everyone would use the new version. This type of document is called baseline in PRINCE2.

The following are the baseline documents in PRINCE2:

• 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

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Written by Frank Turley.

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