Overview

This assignment is worth $80$ points toward your final grade. For this assignment, you must prepare a Project Charter for your Personal Project.

Requirements

Create a Project Charter for your Personal Project

Your final deliverable should be either a MS WORD document or a $.$pdf file.

Submit your document to the instructor via Canvas

Instructions

The format and content of a Project Charter varies from organization to organization. Larger organizations have a PMO $($Project Management Office.$)$ Typically, the PMO dictates a standard format and content of key project deliverables, such as a Project Charter.

If you work for an organization that has a standard template for a Project Charter $($or$,$ perhaps they refer to it as a $$Statement of Work$),$ feel free to use your organization$$s format. Otherwise, please use the Project Charter template provided by your instructor.

The Project Charter should include the following sections:

Description and Scope

Background info on organization, history of the problem $/$ business need

Objectives $$ the solution to the need, success criteria

Benefits of the solution

Scope statement $-$ major deliverables, specific out$-$of$-$scope items.

Business case $$ is the project worth doing? Financial justification.

Approach

Major milestones or events schedule

Impact on other projects or systems

Critical assumptions, and constraints

Process for change control

Resources

Identify Sponsor, Stakeholders, Project team Roles & responsibilities

Other material resource needs

Known risks at the outset

Acceptance criteria $$ how will we know when it$$s done and accepted by the client, customer, or project sponsor

Time and cost estimates $$ budget

Note: If you choose to use one of the charter templates provided in this module, make sure that it includes the sections above! If it does not, add them to your project charter prior to submitting it$.$