Certification Objective 4.01: Developing the Project Charter

Let’s not linger. You know what the project charter is and what it does: It authorizes the project and allows the project manager to assign resources to the project work. It’s all about power. The project manager is officially identified in the project charter, though the project manager should be selected as early as possible during the project—hopefully while the charter is being developed.

The project manager, however, doesn’t issue the project charter. Nope. The project charter, which the PMBOK may call the project initiator, comes from outside of the project. Specifically, the project charter should be issued outside the confines of the project by any of the following: