Understand what a project charter is and craft a project charter Identify stakeholders and how to form a project team Relate the four functions of management to Project Management Understand how to

• Understand what a project charter is and craft a project charter
• Identify stakeholders and how to form a project team
• Relate the four functions of management to Project Management
• Understand how to identify and combat Scope Creep
• Know the foundations of risk management and constraints as they relate to PM

Readings & Resources

• Take a look at the basic charter example provided. 
  • Project Charter Template (DOCX)
• Also, check the augmented lecture for the Week. It goes over a lot of these details and more.
  • Week 2 - Getting Off to a Good Start
• Preparing the project
  • Ready Set Whoa.pdf
• The importance of closing out a project 
  • Harvard Business Review: The Four Phases of Project Management 

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Search out an example of or an article relating to project charters. 

Tell us how they embody the concepts as defined in this week's readings/lectures. 

• Define for us a summary of the article, its value to you, its value to the organization, and how it related to the concepts you learned about this week.
• How were these concepts used?  

Also, post the URL so we can all explore in detail what you found.