In: Operations Management
The inputs that feed into the project charter are:
- a statement of work that describes what the project will deliver once it completes. It summarizes the characteristics of the products or services of the project, its requirements and other information of the project and organizational alignment.
- a business case describing the investment of the project. It gives details of the project such as its objective, its requirements, and time and cost goals.
- the agreement of the contract where the project involves an outside client or customer. The contract is the detailed and more difficult to read or change than a project charter
- the external factors that can affect the project such as government regulations, industry standards, market conditions.
- the policies, plans, processes, procedures, guidelines to run the project, the management systems, information systems financial systems and historical data required for ruining the project.