Project Charter

Owning Knowledge Area: Integration Management
Typical Process Group: Initiating

established project management guidelines definition

A document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities. The charter documents the high-level project requirements, assumptions, constraints, high-level risks, and the assigned project manager.

AI_PM requirements that support this deliverable (5)

ID	Description	Knowledge Area	Process Group
REQ-BUS-001	System replaces ad-hoc flat-file project state for sponsor-portfolio projects	Integration Management	Initiating
REQ-BUS-003	System preserves sponsor approval authority for charter, scope, schedule, budget changes	Integration Management	Monitoring & Controlling
REQ-FUN-001	Store projects with id, name, description, sponsor, status, timestamps	Integration Management	Initiating
REQ-FUN-082	Charter template sufficient to produce this project's own charter	Integration Management	Initiating
REQ-FUN-123	Per-project Assumption Log entity	Integration Management	Initiating