Who Writes the Project Scope Statement?

Hi Jeremiah

A Short (Abridged) Business Proposal should ideally do the trick with these headings

Problem Statement
Business Benefits (Baseline vs target and measure)
Key Risks
Dependencies
Activities
Deliverable
Funding requirements
Timeline (High level schedule)

You need to present this to your project sponsor who will pay for it and possibly your Project Management Office if there is one , that needs to formally approve the project

Hi Jeremiah,

I suggest you draft any documents you want. Often the Sponsor or PMO who will ultimately approve a document is happy to receive a draft because it saves them the trouble of creating it, and creating drafts instead of waiting for others to do so can help you get the document approved days or weeks sooner. Creating drafts also shows initiative on your part, and gives you the chance to show others how well you can plan and think through issues.

Hello Jeremiah, congratulations on acquiring a new role of project manager in your organisation. It is great that you have immediately identified a key success factor (KSF) much needed to excel in your new role.

To answer your question, yes it is now your responsibility to draft and present the proposal since the idea is right from within you. Like Deepesh highlighted, structure your proposal well and make it sell-able making sure that your leadership team buys it without any reservations.

All other documents will follow through once the approval has been given otherwise, you will not need to draft any other document.

By the way, I like the name of your organisation. You must be in the right place...

Thank you very much Ssebo.