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Best project charter template?

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Jena Stack Program Manager| SmithBucklin Chicago, Il, United States
I am looking for a good overalll project charter template, and surprisingly, these are difficult to find. Looking for any recommendations for download here.
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Mayte Mata Sivera PMO Leader | Speaker | Author Ut, United States
Jena, did you check the Template Section Deliverables.

There are a few examples that you can download and adapt to your industry, business model or projects.

Also there are a few discussions related what is the key information that a project charter should have.
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1 reply by Kwiyuh Michael Wepngong
Dec 11, 2020 2:54 AM
Kwiyuh Michael Wepngong
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Good response and reference here.... just to add that you may need to adapt it to fit your need
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Jena -

A charter should reflect the informational needs of your project governance bodies. As such, while templates might provide you with examples, I'd recommend working with your governance folks to construct a minimally sufficient template.

Kiron
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
With base on the definition of project charter "the best" project charter for somebody is which contains the minimum information needed to achieve the objective inside the company which will use it. Because of that you will not find a template. So, you have to make yourself the question "why to create a project charter in this company"?. With that on hand create your own.
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Hemanth Bhagyanath Project Planning| TOYO Trivandrum, Kl, India
I would agree with Kiron, I have not seen a charter so far, so the beggining point for most my project have been a PEP, an accepted proposal, sometimes just a purchase order. Sometimes we prepared like a KOM presentation (i am not sure if that can be called a charter)
i feel the charter contents shall be high level of all things and shall state key stakeholders, an assumption log, acceptance criteria as well. In case of agile projects the charter get updated continuosly
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1 reply by Peter Rapin
Dec 11, 2020 11:56 AM
Peter Rapin
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Might I suggest you define your acronyms. The Free Dictionary shows 140 possibilities for PEP and a dozen for KOM including King of the Mountain :-)
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Kwiyuh Michael Wepngong
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Financial Management Specialist | US Peace Corps Yaounde, Centre, Cameroon
Dec 10, 2020 4:25 PM
Replying to Mayte Mata Sivera
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Jena, did you check the Template Section Deliverables.

There are a few examples that you can download and adapt to your industry, business model or projects.

Also there are a few discussions related what is the key information that a project charter should have.
Good response and reference here.... just to add that you may need to adapt it to fit your need
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Abolfazl Yousefi Darestani Manager, Quality and Continuous Improvement| Hörmann-TNR Industrial Doors Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
I agree with Kiron and Sergio.
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Peter Rapin Subject Matter Expect; Project Delivery| Independent Consultant Ontario, Canada
Dec 10, 2020 10:30 PM
Replying to Hemanth Bhagyanath
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I would agree with Kiron, I have not seen a charter so far, so the beggining point for most my project have been a PEP, an accepted proposal, sometimes just a purchase order. Sometimes we prepared like a KOM presentation (i am not sure if that can be called a charter)
i feel the charter contents shall be high level of all things and shall state key stakeholders, an assumption log, acceptance criteria as well. In case of agile projects the charter get updated continuosly
Might I suggest you define your acronyms. The Free Dictionary shows 140 possibilities for PEP and a dozen for KOM including King of the Mountain :-)
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Thomas Walenta Global Project Economy Expert Hackenheim, Germany
The purpose of a charter is to grant authority to the project manager to execute a project. This could be one sentence.

‚I, Paul Sponsor ask Peter Project-Manager to take on the project XYZ.‘

Each organization will require different details for that purpose. For example a project description (deliver the scope described in documents DDD until xx.xx.xxxx for a maximum of yyy Euro).
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Bogdan Suchta Technical Sales Advisor| Halliburton Poland

Recently I found kickoff app from PMI. You will find there PMI project charter which can be downloaded. Than it can be adopted to Your organization/industry.

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