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hi all, should we manage different SOW & P.Charter formats for internal and external projects?

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david zevallos Director of PM/PMO| Soho Santiago, Rm, Chile
i work in a telecom company which has internal (for research) and external (for clients) projects and trying to clarify the project charter and SOW contents. Most of SOW/P.Charter formats include the project cost but evident we can´t show the cost to the client so i understand we should show the sales amount in the SOW/P.Charter for external projects instead of cost . The cost is showed just for internal projects. Is that ok?
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Eric Simms Senior Program Manager Baltimore, Maryland, United States
That sounds like a fine idea.
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1 reply by david zevallos
Jul 07, 2017 11:10 AM
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thank you. Thinking about it i questioned myself "who is the client?" whatever internal or external project. For external projects we would have 2 different clients, the "internal" one (commercial, product development, finance, mkt) for follow it up and the "external" one who will receive the final deliverable. So should we keep 2 different versions of documents for each one?
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david zevallos Director of PM/PMO| Soho Santiago, Rm, Chile
Jul 07, 2017 10:53 AM
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That sounds like a fine idea.
thank you. Thinking about it i questioned myself "who is the client?" whatever internal or external project. For external projects we would have 2 different clients, the "internal" one (commercial, product development, finance, mkt) for follow it up and the "external" one who will receive the final deliverable. So should we keep 2 different versions of documents for each one?
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Krishna Pakki Project Services Manager| Rio Tinto Gilbert, Az, United States
I would agree with two charters but with a slight difference. I will have one project charter, and remove the company specific confidential information before sharing the same with external team. Having two completely different charters may dilute the very purpose of project charter.
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Jul 07, 2017 12:14 PM
david zevallos
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sounds good, thank you
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david zevallos Director of PM/PMO| Soho Santiago, Rm, Chile
Jul 07, 2017 12:07 PM
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I would agree with two charters but with a slight difference. I will have one project charter, and remove the company specific confidential information before sharing the same with external team. Having two completely different charters may dilute the very purpose of project charter.
sounds good, thank you
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Mayte Mata Sivera PMO Leader | Speaker | Author Ut, United States
I worked as Krishna, we only had one template or project charter and remove the confidential information.
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Liana Underwood National Capital Region, Va, United States
Agree with Krishna, the more you can keep it streamlined without having to manage 2 documents the better!

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