Project charter

Last updated Jun 5, 2023

A document that clearly defines the project and the Project goals and outlines what is needed to accomplish them.

A formal document clearly defines the project and outlines the necessary details to reach its goals.

Used throughout the project life cycle and created during the Project initialization phase.

Outlines that the benefits outtake the costs:

• Cost-benefit analysis.

It helps:

• ensure that you and your Stakeholders agree on the project details.
  • Alignment tool
• organize vital project information
• create a framework for the work that needs to be done
• communicate those details to necessary people
• Useful as a reference

It contains:

• Summary
  • The goal of the summary is to provide an overview of the project and to outline the goals you hope to accomplish
• Project goals
• Project deliverables
• Project scope

When presenting a project charter to stakeholders:

• Collect feedback
• Identify where there are misalignements
• Make changes to address thos misalignments
  • Document misalignments and how they were solved as appendix