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Project Charter - This document establishes the authority
for a project manager to undertake the project and sets the
limits of responsibilities and power. It serves as a formal notification
and alerts stakeholders that project initiation will proceed.
Statement of Work (SOW) - This document helps the
originators and sponsors to clearly describe and document
their expectations of the project. It includes project’s goals,
measures of success, constraints, deliverables, and intended
outcomes. It eases the hand-off from upper management's
vision to the planning-and-execution team’s realities. It will
likely be challenged, negotiated, and modified as various
stakeholder groups interact with it. Before moving forward,
reach consensus on the S.O.W. content with all significant
stakeholders.
Before moving forward, reach consensus on the S.O.W.
content with all significant stakeholders.
Project Initiation Document - This is a one-page aggregation
of all initiation-phase decisions for smaller projects.
Ease of use and brevity is weighted heavily in its design. It can
readily serve as a preliminary document when you’re considering
how much process structure and control is suited for a
given project. This document is of my authorship and is not
recognized in the PMI PMBOK®.
Scope Statement - The scope statement takes on a project-specific
format. Its purpose is to describe in great detail
everything that the project includes and, conversely, everything
that the project does not include. It helps manage stakeholder
expectations and provides the planning team with a
starting point for identifying the work activities, materials,