44 • Practical Project Management for Building and Construction
Many times the project manager must write the project charter and have
it approved by the client. During the initiation and the project planning
start-up, the PM summarizes all the knowledge available in the “project
specication.” is is sometimes called the “preliminary project manage-
ment plan.” It is therefore a good idea to use the same headings as the later
developed project management plan. Appropriate headings in the project
specication can be
1. Approval of this project specication document
2. General
2.1. Project name, project owner, and property ownership
2.2. Background
2.3. General description of needs, goals, end-eect goals, etc.
2.4. Important sta ...