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Project Management Charter
Demo Project Charter
  • 2 Hours
  • 2 PDUs
  • COST $45
 Course Code: PC1000-E
TARGET CLIENTELE: PMC’s PM Charter on-line course is designed to support project managers and project sponsors needing to produce a project charter. The interactive course can also be used as a teaching tool by all personnel involved with or needing to know how to create a project charter in order to initiate a project.
OVERVIEW: PMC’s Project Charter on-line course is a skills development course that directs students in the application of PM knowledge to a project charter output. The course is based upon the PMI’s Project Management Body of Knowledge covering all aspects of the project charter including: project identification, descriptive, goals, objectives, scope, key milestones, risks, constraints, and sponsor sign-off.
BENEFITS: This course helps one to build a project charter in order to manage projects successfully, while learning basic project management concepts.
APPROACH: PMC’s PM Charter Course is an interactive, case study or actual project charter development course that teaches an individual how to complete a project charter. The on-line course provides instructor audio and closed caption script, instructional graphics, interactive exercises and a completed project charter which can be used to initiate the user’s project or represent the provided case study. PMC leveraged I-Pal’s, the course manufacturer, instructional design model to ensure that the PM Charter teaching approach meets all of today’s student learning requirements.
CONTENT: Module 1: Defining a Project Charter
As a starting point, a Project Charter should be developed to establish the foundation of the project and it should be approved and understood by all stakeholders.The Project Charter is used to initiate the project for delivery. It documents the fundamental requirements that satisfy the stakeholder’s needs and expectations of the outcome of the project.
Module 2: Components of a Project Charter
  • Identification - project name, project id, version & date
  • Project Description
  • Project Score
  • High Level Requirements
  • Goals, Objectives, and Success Criteria
  • High Level Assumptions and Risks
  • Summary Milestone Schedule
  • Estimated Cost
  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Project Authorization
Module 3: Completion and Delivery of a Project Charter

Project Statement of Work – documents the organization’s business needs relating to market demand or internal operational and business priorities. It includes the product scope description and functions, as well as how it serves the company's business needs and strategic goals.

Business Case – a cost benefit analysis that details how the organization will manage the product and/or service through its life cycle.

Contract - a product of a business case that supports the project team's efforts to deliver the work which is driven by the project plan.

Enterprise Environmental Factors - includes government standards, organizational and market constraints.

Organizational Process Assets – includes approved methodologies, templates and relevant historical information or lessons learned.

INPUTS: Project Statement of Work, Business Case, Contract, Enterprise Environmental Factors, and Organizational Process Assets.
OUTPUTS: PMC’s On-line Project Charter course is an applied learning program that produces a completed theoretical or actual project charter as an output of taking the course. The project charter defines the purpose, the scope, the objective and establishes a framework and approach for the project. It provides details on the project description, the requirements, outline of the project objectives, the roles and responsibilities, the risks, a budget and the main stakeholders involved. The project charter can serve as a reference document for the future of the project.