Project Initiation

With a good start & good high level planning one can consider half of the project complete

Your project has been selected, and you have been appointed as the Project Manager. You should now use the Project Charter or commercial contract, to get the wheels spinning in motion. At the minimum your Project Charter should:

• Designate you as the Project Manager with the authority to use resources to bring the project to completion -- this is formally done by the project sponsor/main stakeholders.
• Provide a short description of the result, outcome, product or services to be produced by the project.
• Refer to the commercial contract as the basis for initiating the project (if there is such a formal contract).

After having reviewed the Project Charter, do the following:

• Ask the Project Sponsor and main stakeholders to share with you any emails, letters, memos, project feasibility, meeting minutes, requirements or other documents related to the project.
• If a similar kind of project has already been completed, get your hands on all the documentation that was produced for that particular project. Set up a meeting with the project manager of that project to ask for advice.