Ajit KanitkarHead, C&I Project Excellence| TietoEVRYBhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
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Can we call (for example) writing a project charter as a project in itself? Saving Changes...
Is writing the requirements document or creating end user training materials a project?
Given that the question came from a PMP aspirant, I would say that, for the purposes of the PMP application, you cannot count writing the project charter as a project. You would list it as a deliverable of the project and count the hours toward the requirement. But if your only experience across all projects you've worked on is preparing the project charter, your application probably won't be accepted. If it's just part of your experience, it's good experience to have.
Stepping away from PMI, any discrete deliverable tends to get called a project. Is this wrong? Not really, but it's kind of like the two tricky answers on PMP exam questions - one is how a lot of people do it, and the other is how PMP says it should be done. Saving Changes...
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