PRINCE2 page types

PRINCE2 index

Lists the project’s management products and their state.

Project Mandate

The client’s instruction that starts the project: the need and the outcome wanted. Not how or when.

Project Brief

Defines the project from the Mandate: objectives, scope, constraints, tolerances, users, outline business case, project product and approach.

Project Initiation Documentation (PID)

The baseline for running the project: links the definition, Business Case, roles, approaches (quality, risk, issue, communication), plan, controls and tailoring.

Business Case

Why the project is worth doing: reasons, options, benefits, dis-benefits, timescale, costs and major risks. Reviewed at each gate.

Organisation and roles

Who holds each PRINCE2 role and whether it is confirmed.

Communication Management Approach

Who receives what, through which channel and how often.

Project Plan

Stages, dated schedule with dependencies, critical path, assumptions and the cost table.

Stage Plan

The current stage in detail and the next stage in outline.

Product Breakdown Structure and Product Descriptions

The products the project must deliver, and for each: purpose, composition, derivation, format, quality criteria, quality method and responsibilities.

Work Packages

Agreed parcels of work: products, owner, dates, tolerances, dependencies and acceptance.

Registers

Risk, issue, quality, daily log, lessons and decisions, each with a unique ID and status. Records are closed, never deleted.

Change Control

Log of change requests with impact and decision, and the blank request form.

Configuration Item Records

The controlled items (management products and EV pages), their status, location and owner.

Highlight Report

Periodic report to the Executive: status, work done, work next, tolerances, changes, issues, risks, lessons.

Report templates

Blank Checkpoint, Exception and End Stage Reports in PRINCE2 7 composition.