Week 2
Due Week 2: Project Charter
Provide a project charter of your selected project in accordance with the charter template found in Doc Sharing.
Please put this in proper business writing format. Consider me to be your boss. If working in a group, include the updated Statement of Participation for Week 2, describing how each person contributed to this project deliverable. Please place the updated Statement of Participation in your teams’ Doc Sharing area for review. A charter should be a minimum of 3–5 pages long.
Deliverables for Week 2:
- Completed Project Charter (in MS Word)
- Statement of Participation and status update
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Project Name
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Project Number
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Project Team
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Prioritization
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Owner(s)
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Start
Date:
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Scheduled
Completion Date:
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NOTE: Remove this note and all instructions in the
template for a business professional document.
Mission/
Purpose
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What is your
project going to accomplish? How does this project relate to overall strategic
goals and objectives of the company?Is it part of a program or larger
project?
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Project
Description and
Project Product
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What will this
project create? What are the outcome products being created with this
project? At a high level, how do you plan on completing the work required for
this project?List at least five high-level deliverables (outputs) that will
be generated from the execution of this project. This section will help to
prepare for your project scope and WBS later in the course.
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Objectives
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What objective is
this project designed to meet? List a high-level objective statement for the
overall project and at least three to five goals required to meet this
objective. These must be measurable.For example, if an objective of the
project is the cut cost, then by how much will costs be cut?
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Business
Need
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Why should we do this project?What will be
gained, changed, or modified?Is there a financial or business reason to do
this project?Explain, in detail, how this project will be beneficial to the
project owner.
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Milestones
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What
are the key milestone dates associated with the project? Milestones may show
the completion of a set of major deliverables or phases.List at least 10
milestones and provide estimated end dates for each.Milestones must have
associated dates.
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Budget
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What
is the estimatedbudget for this project? Do not research your project cost;
this is an estimate. This does not need to be close to your project’s actual
costs when your project planning is complete in Week 6.This is an order of
magnitude estimate.
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Estimated
Labor
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Estimated
Materials
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Estimated
Contractors
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Estimated
Equipment and Facilities
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Estimated
Travel
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Total
Estimated Cost
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User
Acceptance Criteria
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What
are the minimum success criteria as defined by the key stakeholders?How will
you monitor and measure the project quality?How will the project owners
determine if the project is a success or not?These must be detailed and
measureable.
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High-Level
Project Assumptions
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What are the
assumptions on which the project is based? What 7–10 statements do you
believe to be true or will become true about the project during project
executionbut cannot be sure at this time?
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High-Level
Project Constraints
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What
are the major limiting factors that affect the project?What 8–10 rules, regulations,
requirements, laws, processes, or procedures are you bound by on this
project?
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Exclusions
and Boundaries
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What are the
boundaries of the project? To ensure that your project scope is properly constrained,
identify 8–10 things that will beexcluded from the project plans.What items
will be not be included in the project?
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Major
Risks
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What
are the major risks affecting the project? List a minimum of 7 to 10 risks.These
risks must occur during the project, not after the project finishes or before
the project starts. The risks defined should be directly associated with the
project implementation.
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KEY
STAKEHOLDERS
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Project Manager
Authority Level
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Project Core Team
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Subject Matter
Experts (SMEs)(What
resources will you need with special expertise?)
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APPROVALS
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Type Name
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Signature
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Date
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Project Manager
Approval
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Customer/Sponsor
Approval
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