Project Charter
The document that formally authorizes the project and gives the project manager authority to apply resources.
The project charter is the document that formally authorizes a project to exist, names the project manager, and grants that person authority to apply organizational resources. Issued by the sponsor or initiating authority during the Initiating process group, it links the project to the organization’s strategic objectives and captures the business need, high-level scope, milestones, assumptions, constraints, and key stakeholders. A common exam trap is confusing it with the scope statement: the charter is high-level and sponsor-issued before detailed planning, while the scope statement is produced by the team during Planning. Without a charter, create one before proceeding.
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