Develop Project Charter

Develop Project Charter is a project management process carried out to create a document called Project Charter. The Project Charter serves two fundamental purposes: (a) bring a project or a phase of a project to existence by obtaining formal approval from sponsor(s); and (b) authorize a project manager to continue further with the project and doing so, utilize assigned resources of the organization.

• In words of Ricardo Vargas, a Project Charter is 'Birth Certificate' of a project!
• Develop Project Charter process belongs to Initiating Process Group and Project Integration Management Knowledge Area.

Develop Project Charter - ITTOs

Inputs	Tools & Techniques	Outputs
Project Statement of Work Agreements Business Case Enterprise Environmental Factors Organizational Process Assets	Expert Judgement Facilitation Techniques	Project Charter

• Do we create a Project Charter for every project? No. Project Charter is created for projects that have successfully made through appraisal/project selection system/mechanism/processes, by sponsor(s).

• Who writes and approves Project Charter? Project Charter is formally approved by project sponsor(s) by signing it. Due to this reason, the responsibility of writing a Project Charter falls to sponsor(s). However, in practice sponsor(s) are facilitated by project manager, or project management team, or someone from Project Management Office.

• As Develop Project Charter process involves getting formal authorization from sponsor(s), the approval and funding are handled external to project boundaries. As project sponsor falls outside resides outside the boundaries of a project,

Project Charter Samples and Examples

• Project Charter Sample - Niagara Region-Wide Road Safety Campaign
• Project Charter Example - Human Rights Project Charter

Business Case and Project Charter Templates

• Business Case Template by Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat 
• Business Case Template by PMDocs.
• Project Charter Template by Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
• Project Charter Template  by PMDocs.

Business Case and Project Charter Guides

• Business Case Guide by Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
• Project Charter Guide by Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

Exercise

Focus of the exercise is to understand, identify and extract different elements of a Project Charter and compile them together in a documents.

Presentation Slides

Develop Project Charter - Presentation Slides

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