Assignment and Students Work
This assignment will be used as a component of your last Team Project Presentation. You can use any free draft of Project Charter. This is the main document to initiate a Project and no project can start without the signature of both parties of this chart.
Course assignment: “Develop a project charter” which is a document as an essential part of project planning, for your team’ project.
Learning Outcomes:
Understand the main components of a project charter to start a project.
Understand how to measure a project success according to a project charter
Understand what are your main responsibilities as a project manager
Understand the sponsor needs and requirements
Understand the scope, time and budget of a project
Understand what are out of scopes
Conduct a research about the best templates
Learn to work in group
Use the concepts studied previously in your class.
Guidelines of what students will be asked to produce:
Use a free project charter template that you can find online by google search.
Create a project charter for your team project, in which you outline the project scope and objectives.
Find a title for you project, outline the scope, the budget and the time needed to achieve your project
Choose the project manager of your group, give each member of your team a responsibility and a title in your project
Define a project sponsor and all stakeholders
Include basic elements such as the project background, risks, milestones and what are the elements that are out of your scope
Define who will be responsible about agreeing that you reached your objectives
Add the final section for approval section, with the date and signature of the authorities.
Have fun!
Delivering your Presentation:
This first course assignment describes a group Project for the Project Management class, awarding a grade to each student. The assignment date is due on December 16th. For students who want a review for their draft, the final date will be on November 20th. For any other questions please contact me directly on the office hours or by e-mail.
Do not exceed 2 pages, you can use any kind of format as project charter templates.
Students are expected to make a professional project charter.
The grading rubric for your assignment will guide you about what are the expectations about your Project Charter.
This assignment is worth 200 points, which is nearly 25% of your overall grade. This is your opportunity to shine, please use it wisely!
Evaluating your Presentation:
Your project charter should be clear, informative, logically structured, and visually effective. I will grade your assignment by evaluating it with the 8 factors listed below in the assignment's rubric.
The consistency and coherence of the deliverables according to your project scope, time and budget 50/200
The evidence you gathered to support your risk management arguments 50/200
Your list of stakeholders 20/200 • Your list of deliverables 20/200
The presence of all basic elements of a project charter (listed above) 20/200
Team members equal contribution, collaboration in harmony and team governance 20/200
The format of your project charter 10/200
The originality of your project 10/200
Project Management is mostly about working with harmony with your team, your sponsors and stakeholders. Human resource management, communication and procurement management are the main components of a good Project Management. Learning to design a Project Charter with your team is to learn how to write the first legal document, how to communicate with your sponsors and within your team, how to choose human resources. The project charter defines all the elements you need to start your project as the scope, the budget, the time of deliverables, the risks, the composition of your team. The grades are designed according to the importance of the learning objectives, the coherence of the project, the efforts of research, the clarity of the format and the exertion of collaborative work.