Developing the Project Charter

The Project Charter is the document that formally authorizes a project. It gives the project manager the authority to lead the project. For this Follow-on Activity, you will need to refer to a Project Charter developed by your organization.

1. Which of the elements below appear in your organization's Project Charter?

	project overview	A project overview contains a description of the business need, purpose, and product or service.
	preliminary roles and responsibilities	Preliminary roles and responsibilities describe the duties of the project team. This includes people who should be involved and why and how they might be involved. This might include customers, sponsors, stakeholders, users, and the project team.
	identification of the project manager	The project manager identification designates the project manager who has primary project oversight responsibility.
	description of the project manager's authority	The description of the project manager's authority outlines the level of authority given to the project manager. This would include financial oversight and level of decision making.
	sign-off	Sign-off is the approval required from the project's sponsor to give the go-ahead to the project.

2. Is the Project Charter missing any of these elements? If so, which ones?


3. What is the project's product or service?


4. What does the Project Charter tell you about the project?