Master Planning and Scheduling, 4th Edition

Appendix H Master Planning and Scheduling Spinoff Task Team Charter

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This appendix highlights a master planning and scheduling spinoff task team charter. The idea behind creating a team charter is that all members of the task team agree to the major activities listed along with their defined deliverables. Additionally, all team members commit to being part of the MPS improvement initiative until all major activities are completed and the defined deliverables are met.

Once the spinoff task team completes the major activities defined in the team charter and ensures that all defined deliverables have been met, the spinoff task team is disbanded. Along with approving the MPS charter, the executive steering committee is committing that a job equal to or greater than the one left by each MPS task team member is awaiting each team member when the MPS task force is disbanded.

Figure H.1 is an example of a master planning and scheduling (MPS) spinoff task team charter. The example is offered to the reader as an example only. Each deliverable needs to have an accountable owner and associated due date.

Once again, the reader is cautioned on just picking up this MPS charter example and using it as is in their master planning and scheduling improvement initiative. The way to use this example is to carefully read it, discuss it, decide on what makes sense to the team, add other elements that make sense to the ...