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Dwayne Brewster Project Administrator| Sagicor Bridgetown, Barbados
Hi
I am trying do define a solid list of criteria that needs to be presented to operational staff so that they could identify and label it as a potential project. I am working at a medium size organisation and the current intiative is for all request to come through a central location (Help- desk s/w)...
Btw i am new to the field and any suggestions will be greatly appreciated .
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Al S. Brown PMP CSM PMI-PBA President and CEO| Real-Life Projects Inc. Belle Mead, Nj, United States
The ones that I have used are:
* Project title
* Proposed sponsor
* Proposed PM
* Description/Overview (a few paragraphs)
* Objectives (high view, a few bullets)
* Risks of doing
* Risks of not doing
* Impact on other projects in the organization
* Cost & Criticality (high-level description of these issues)

If you want to see more, including a template of a project charter, take a look at:
http://www.alexsbrown.com/charter-template.html
http://www.alexsbrown.com/tag/charters

All these articles are based on my real experiences proposing projects to senior executives. My main advice is to keep it simple and keep it business-oriented. At the early phase, it is important to figure out how it will help the organization, not the details of how you will perform the project work.

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