Charters Articles

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Sponsors rarely hand project managers a clear, well-defined charter. Project managers need to ask, negotiate, and sometimes demand in order to get a useful charter. The negotiations begin as soon as the sponsor asks the project manager to investigate the new project or idea.
The project charter may begin as a simple verbal request, [...]

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Project managers often face conflict. Resolving conflict in business requires negotiation. Project charters provide the foundation for project negotiations.

Learn how to use project charters effectively as a negotiating tool.

The Charter: Selling Your Project
Delivered at the PMI North America Congress in Toronto, Canada
Recorded September 12, 2005
Presented by Alex S. Brown, PMP. Find out more about Alex at http://www.alexsbrown.com/.
About Alex S. Brown, PMP

Manager of Strategic Planning
Works at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group, USA
15 years experience in financial services
Website www.alexsbrown.com
Active volunteer, speaker, and writer

Why Charters?

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Project Charters Bridge Cultures
Delivered at the PMI NJ Chapter International Project Management Day Seminar
Recorded November 2, 2006
Presented by Alex S. Brown, PMP. Find out more about Alex at http://www.alexsbrown.com/.
About Alex S. Brown, PMP

Strategic Planning Office Manager at Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group, USA
Articles and newsletter at www.alexsbrown.com
President of Real-Life Projects, [...]

This speech was delivered and recorded live for the PMI North America Congress on September 12, 2005. You can hear the speech and see the slides right now. The entire 54-minute speech will play, with slides synchronized to the audio.

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Learn the best writing style, language, and format for your next project charter. In a fair world, only content would matter, but in the real world, these writing tips can help make your project successful.

Learn how project charters successfully bridged cultural gaps when making decisions among a community of Japanese and U.S. executives. Establishing a clear chartering process was the key to project management’s success at the company. The presentation will include templates and overviews of the processes established.
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Organizations may choose to adopt a standard process for approving all projects. Using a template for all proposals can make the approval process easier and provide other benefits to the organization. This article provides a simple template, instructions on filling it out, and a sample completed project charter.

Any organization developing their own standard process to charter new projects can use this template as a starting point and customize it.