Project Planning Assignment 1

Project Charter

Use the Project Charter Checklist for expert tips and advice on how to create a Project Charter.

At a project's initiation, management and stakeholders authorize and approve the work to be done. This process often takes the form of a project charter, which can be either an informal document or a formal contract. In both cases, key stakeholders should sign the document to indicate their approval.

In this assignment, you create a project charter for your Project Plan. Follow these instructions:

1. Use the Project Charter Template to guide your work.

2. Use the Project Charter Checklist for expert tips and advice on how to create a project charter.

3. Refer to the Project Charter Scoring Guide to learn how the instructor will evaluate your charter.

4. Submit your charter in the assignment area.

After implementing the instructor's feedback, as appropriate, you will include your charter in the final Project Plan submission, as indicated in the course project description.

Resources

• Project Charter Scoring Guide. • Project Charter Template. • Project Charter Presentation | Transcript.

Readings

Meredith, J. R., Mantel, S. J., & Shafer, S. M. (2015). Project management: A

managerial approach (9th ed.). Indianapolis, IN: Wiley. ISBN: 9781118947029.

Complete the following tasks:

• In Meredith, Mantel, and Shafer's text, Project Management: A Managerial Approach, read:

o Chapter 1 (pages 1–27) for an introduction to project management and the project

life cycle.

o Section 4.5 (pages 148–149) and Section 6.1 (pages 206–211) for background

information about why project charters are important.

• In the Project Management Institute's A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge ( PMBOK® Guide) Fifth edition, 2013 text, read:

o Chapters 1 and 2 (pages 1–46) to gain an understanding of the definition of project

management and an overview of the PMBOK® Guide, as well as learning about how

a project fits into the larger organizational context.

o Chapter 3 (pages 47–61) to learn about the standard project management

processes. You only need to skim these pages.

o Sections 4.1–4.3 (pages 63–78) explain how to create a project charter, and pages

78–88 provide an overview of the standard structure of the project plan.

• Read Davis's 2005 article, "An Experiential Case Study in IT Project Management Planning: The Petroleum Engineering Economics Evaluation Software Imperative"

from the Journal of Cases on Information Technology, volume 7, issue 1, pages 1–21.