introduction
after we get an overview about project charter concepts in previous article
this article we will discuss ( input , output , techniques and tools ) of project charter
process inputs
above the project charter input and output with tools from PMI officially
but it’s OK to mention additional things we believe it could help to develop charter , like
- Contract (where applicable)
- Project statement of work
- Enterprise environmental factors
- Organizational process assets
- The project statement of work (S. O. W.)
Business need
- Product scope description (writing product descriptions). These can serve as the S.O.W. (if the project is contracting to a vendor)
strategic plan
- This is the organization’s strategic plan, and the project manager will need to make reference to it). This merely ensures that the project is in line with the organization’s strategic direction.
Environmental factors
- These other factors that are outside of the project,
- the project must make sure that it is aligned with them within the project charter.
- They include:Organisational culture and structure governmental or industry standards infrastructure human resources personnel administration organisations work authorisation system marketplace conditions stakeholder risk tolerance commercial databases project management information systems All of these aspects can influence the way that the project is managed.
Organizational process assets
- information that can be used on each project within the project charter, and are updated and added to if appropriate on each project, thus increasing these assets for future projects. They can be such aspects as:
- policies
- guidelines
- procedures
- plans
- approaches
- standards
Other aspects include:
- project management policies
- safety policies
- performance measurement criteria
- plates
- financial controls
- communication requirements
- issue and defect management procedures
- change control procedures
- risk control procedures
- procedures used for authorizing work
- historical information (these should be examined when starting a project)
- lessons learned reports
- Tools and techniques for the project charter
project selection Methods
next we will have separate article about project selection Methods as we believe it require more details to be mentioned
Project Statement Of Work SOW
Project Statement Of Work SOW :
created by customer or sponsor to describe their needs , which include :
1- business need
2- product scope description
3- strategic plan
SOW is detailed at scope statement (Planning )
Agreements
Agreement like :
- MOUs memory of understand
- SLA service level agreement
- letter of intent
- verbal agreement
- contract (specially in external project )
Facilitation Technique
like :
- brain storming
- conflict resolution
- problem solving
- meeting management
process outputs
the output of process develop project charter is project charter itself which include some components we mentioned in previous articles beside of :
- high-level requirement
- High-level risk
- High-level project description
- project purpose or justification
- summery milestone
- summary budget
- stakeholder list
- assumptions and constraints
- assigned project manager and his responsibility and authority
- project approval requirement (what constitute project success ,
- who will decide project success , who will sign-of project )
- name and authority of sponsor who authorizing project charter
conclusion
above we discussed inputs and tools with techniques for developing project charter
next article we will fully discuss the project selection methods as extending to develop project charter
