PM Crash Course™ for IT Professionals

Chapter 4. The Project Charter

Goals of This Chapter

Upon completion of this chapter, you should be able to:

• Define what is a project charter

• Give examples of soft and hard metrics of a project

Project Charter

A formal document recognizing the existence of the project

It may be created by the project manager, but is issued by the sponsor in the initiating process

It defines the high-level requirements for the project and links the project to the ongoing work of the organization

Have you ever been asked to do a project, only to discover that the project did not have support of upper management and had a high probability of being cancelled? Are cancelled projects a common occurrence in your organization? To gain support and cooperation ...