Baseline management products
Baseline management products are those that define aspects of the project and once they have been approved, are subject to change control. Usually, baseline products have a version number assigned to them to identify the baseline.
Most baseline management products evolve during pre-project and during the initiation stage. The baseline management products of PRINCE2 are described below. Many of these form part of the project initiation documentation (PID) which is also indicated below.
- Benefits management approach
- Business case
- Change management approach
- Communication management approach
- Commercial management approach
- Digital and data management approach
- Issue management approach
- Plan (project, stage, team, exception)
- Product description
- Project brief
- Project initiation documentation
- Project product description
- Quality management aproach
- Risk management approach
- Sustainability management approach
- Work package description
Benefits management approach (part of PID)
The purpose of the benefits management approach is to identify the benefits management actions and reviews that will be performed to ensure the outcomes of the project will be achieved, and to confirm that the benefits are realized.
Business case
A business case
A business case serves as the continual rationale for the project, and its validity must persist throughout the entire
A Project Management Qualification (PMQ) planAdvance your APM project management expertise. provides an overview of the objectives, how they will be achieved, when they will be completed, and with what resources. A plan outlines the scope of the work, the products to be delivered, and the activities and resources responsible. Project Risk Single Certificate Level 1 PRINCE2Enhance your project risk management skills. recommends three levels of plan – project plan, stage plan(s), and team plan(s).AgilePM
Product description®
Product descriptions – Agile Project Management are created during planning. They are attached into plans and are written at the level of detail required by the plan. For example, for a team plan, a product description will be detailed, but for a Foundation project planLearn the key principles of Agile Project Management., it will not contain the same level of detail.Practitioner
A Includes Foundation & Practitioner combined option.product descriptionPRINCE2 is often written for each product contained with a product breakdown structure.®
Project brief Agile
The Foundation project briefLearn the fundamentals of the PRINCE2 Agile method. is a short summary of the project and is used by the project board to authorize the initiation stage of the project. It is assembled during the starting up a project process by the Practitioner project managerIncludes Foundation & Practitioner combined option.. The AI Project Governance Framework (AIPGF)project briefFoundation is then used in the initiating a project process as the basis for creating the project initiation documentation.Learn the fundamentals of the governance framework.
If you are familiar with the PMBOKPractitioner ®Includes Foundation & Practitioner combined option. Guide, the Project Charter serves a similar purpose as the Better Business Casesproject brief™.Foundation
Project initiation documentationLearn the fundamentals of Better Business cases.
The Practitioner project initiation documentationIncludes Foundation & Practitioner combined option. (PID) defines the project and enables the project board to evaluate the overall performance of the project. It outlines the project scope and direction and with the stage plan forms the ‘contract’ between the project manager and project board.P3O
Project product description®
There is one Foundation project product descriptionLearn the fundamentals of the P3O project management office. which outlines the main deliverable created by the project. It is created by the project manager with the help of the senior user and describes what the project will deliver to gain acceptance.Practitioner
Quality management approach (part of PID)Includes Foundation & Practitioner combined option.
A Workshopsquality management approachIntroduction to Project Management lays out the strategy for ensuring quality throughout the project. It includes specific quality processes, methods, standards, and responsibilities for quality activities. The quality management approach is established in the project initiation stage, and forms part of the project initiation documentation.1-day workshop to learn the basics of project management.
Risk management approach (part of PID)Project Management Essentials
A 2-day workshop to learn how to manage projects without getting certified.risk management approachWriting Business Cases defines the procedures for Half-day workshop to learn to write robust business cases.risk managementAI in Project Management and covers how risk will be identified, assessed, controlled, and communicated in the project, and the responsibilities for performing risk management activities. The Learn how to use AI tools in everyday project work.risk management approach
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)Sustainability management approach (part of PID)
The purpose of the BCS AIsustainability management approachFoundation is to identify the actions, reviews and controls needed to ensure that sustainability performance targets for the project are achieved.Learn the fundamentals of artificial intellegence.
Work package descriptionAI Project Governance Framework (AIPGF)
A Foundation work package descriptionLearn the fundamentals of the governance framework. is an agreement between the Practitioner project managerIncludes Foundation & Practitioner combined option. and a team manager about what work is to be done by a team to deliver the required products. A Workshopswork packageAI in Project Management Learn how to use AI tools in everyday project work.descriptionAGILE contains one or more product descriptions, the specialist techniques to be performed, tolerances for cost, time, scope, and risks, and the reporting requirements for the team manager.AgilePM
A ®work package description – Agile Project Management passes formal responsibility for the delivery of products to a team manager. It forms the interface between the business, represented by the project manager, and the supplier, represented by the team manager.
The INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT)highlight reportITIL enables the project board to ‘manage by exception’ between each stage end.®
Issue reportFoundation
For every issue in the issue register, an Learn the fundamentals of ITIL service management.issue reportStrategist DPI is created by the project manager to describe in detail the issue.3-day ITIL Strategist: Direct, Plan & Improve (DPI) course.
An Specialist: DSV issue report3-day ITIL Specialist: Drive Stakeholder Value (DSV) course. contains information to uniquely identify the issue, its type, the date raised, the person who raised it, the impact assessment on the project targets, the actions to resolve it, the person(s) responsible for these actions, and the closure date.Specialist: CDS
Lessons report3-day ITIL Specialist: Create, Deliver and Support (CDS) course.
A IT Learning Library (ITLL)™lessons reportBUSINESS LEARNING LIBRARY (BLL)™ documents any lessons that might be of value later in the current project, or to future Agile Learning Library (ALL)™projectsBusiness Analysis Learning Library (BALL)™. It is created by the project manager either at the end of a stage, and/or at the end of the project.Compliance Learning Library (CLL)™
The purpose of a IT Learning Library (ITLL)™lessons reportBusiness solutions is to initiate actions to enable the organization (or project) to avoid any negative lessons in the future and to embed any good lessons within the organization’s or project’s ways of working._blank