The project charter serves as your project roadmap. This show to guide explains what should be included in every project roadmap that you construct. Is a vital part of every project effort

1. Project Manifesto –
The Project Charter
A TLS Continuum Guide to
Process Improvement

2. The Key to Success

3. The Key to Success _ The
Charter
11 Parts to complete charter
Build on each other to completion
Provides project roadmap
Guides organization through the how to’s

4. Project Charter – Part 1
Project name/title
Explains what the problem is
Needs to be clearly written

5. Project Charter – Part 2
Identifies end user
Shows management support
Indicates who has a stake in the end
result

6. Project Charter – Part 3
Every project needs someone who is the sponsor
of the project
Serves as the buffer between team and
management/organization
Does not have to be entrenched in the teams
Does not control the team

7. Project Charter – Part 4
Who is on the team
What is their role in the project?
Needs to show the cross-functional involvement

8. Project Charter – Part 5
Represents the stakeholders in the project
Should be both internal and external
Represents anyone who touches the process

9. Project Charter – Part 6
Identifies the principal benefits
Needs to look at each stakeholder from the
perspective of what they expect to gain from the
project

10. Project Charter – Part 7
Critical part of the charter process
Lists the milestones for the project
Categorized by target date
Categorized by actual date
Shows management approval for each milestone

11. Project Charter – Part 8
Critical part of the charter process
Defines the problem
Defines the opportunity

12. Project Charter – Part 9
Defines the project goals
Defines the potential project solutions
Defines the project recommendations

13. Project Charter – Part 10
Defines the required project resources
Defines the human capital assets needed
Defines the materials that will be needed
Defines time resources required
Needs to include the financials

14. Project Charter – Part 11
Defines the project impact
Explains how the organization will change
Looks at the future state of the organization
following the project
Looks at how we change the organization
Looks at how we change the process

15. Lessons Learned
1 Project charter is a must
2 Can’t run a project without one
3 All parties must sign off on the project
4 Is a roadmap to successful
improvement

16. MORE INFORMATION?
Daniel Bloom
SPHR, Six Sigma Black Belt
Chief Executive Officer
Daniel Bloom &Associates, Inc.
PO Box 1233
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