Management Products

Any Project Management process identifies the need for a document structure to capture and maintain planning information. PRINCE2™ has documented the need for a set of management products that are created and maintained throughout the project lifecycle. These are defined in Appendix A of the PRINCE2™ manual.

Given that the product descriptions and the processes that create the products are defined for PRINCE2™, the need to reproduce these pictures in a specific project's Product Breakdown Structure or Product Flow Diagram is reduced. The Quality Management System for the organisation can provide the appropriate forms and templates necessary to create the documents for a project. These references would be identified in the Project Quality Plan for the project.

On the other hand, all of the work necessary to produce these products must be included as activities in the stage plans for the project (including the Initiation Stage Plan). Through the precise use of the product names, each activity can identify the appropriate product description for the product that is being produced. For example:

• Produce the Project Quality Plan
• Hold a Quality Review of the Project Quality Plan

The following picture shows a product breakdown structure for these management products. Where there is a product description, these have been included in the name of the product, where a product is implied, the product is identified without a reference to the appendix.

NOTE: There are other ways to package the information contained in these products. See Management Products Alternative Packaging.

Management Products for PRINCE2™ (2005) (Consolidating Figures 22.2 and 22.3 plus implied products)

The PBP file contains the full set of management products for PRINCE2 2005 and 2009. The following file shows the management products in a PBS:

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