Artifact: Project Charter

Provides a preliminary delineation of roles and responsibilities, outlines the project objectives, identifies the main stakeholders, and defines the authority of the project manager.

Work Product Kinds: Project Management Work Products

Relationships

Roles	Responsible: Project Manager	Modified By:
Tasks	Input To: Communicate the Requirements Management Plan Develop Future State Develop the Test Management Plan Elicit Requirements Prepare Architecture Vision Prepare SAD QA Review of Artifacts Scope an End to End Process Validate Requirements	Output From: Develop Project Charter

Description

Main Description	Provides a preliminary delineation of roles and responsibilities, outlines the project objectives, identifies the main stakeholders, and defines the authority of the project manager.

Illustrations

Templates	Project Charter Template

Tailoring

Impact of not having	Inability to manage scope and design a solution to meet the expectations of the stakeholders.
Reasons for not needing	Required

Version and Release

Unified Life Cycle (ULC): 5.1, November 3, 2014
Phase Gates: 1.1, May 27, 2014
Process Engineering Process (PEP): 1.1, May 27, 2014