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Having a high-level understanding of a project is critical to project success. The project charter is a document that formally authorizes or recognizes a project; it contains high-level information about the project. The project charter is frequently developed by the project manager, with the project sponsor. The charter functions as an agreement about the purpose and objectives of the project.

In project management parlance, the person who champions (and funds) a project is the project sponsor. Although the project manager may work for the project sponsor, the project often also has a customer — outside the project manager’s own company or within it — for whom the end product is produced.

Common elements of a project charter are:

 Purpose

 Description

 Objectives

 Criteria for completion

 Summary milestone schedule

 Summary budget

Other names for the charter are project-initiating document and statement of work.

The high-level information in the charter provides background information to help you plan the project approach and organize the work logically. Using the information from the charter, you can start to define the project’s major deliverables and its life cycle — and your approach to accomplishing all the project work.

Throughout this book, I use a project to demonstrate key concepts in Project. The project is part of a larger program to build a community called Desert Rose. It is a gated community that will have four neighborhoods and community spaces and activities. Our project is the Security for the Desert Rose community. The project charter for the Security sample project is shown in Figure 2-1.

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FIGURE 2-1: The Desert Rose Security project charter.