This Project Charter example is the Project Charter of the Quality of Life project — the example I follow in my book Project Management in 10 Steps, from the first page to the last. It is the document of Step 1 of the book. Open it to see the finished document on a real project, then write your own.

About the Quality of Life project

A personal project, run alongside a full-time job: you are the project manager and the customer. One objective — “improve my quality of life, sustainably” — with four key results (annual income, monthly balance, productivity at work, BMI), served by five deliverables: a promotion at your company, lower monthly spending, fewer unproductive hours, fewer incidents and a healthy life. The scope is known and stable, so the approach is predictive. The project runs from October 2017 to December 2018, and the documents show it as it stood on 15 December 2017.

What is in this Project Charter example?

Sections:

• Purpose of this document
• Why?
• Project justification
• Objectives and Key Results (OKR)
• What?
• Expected products, services or results
• Requirements
• Who? Project stakeholders
• How?
• Development approach
• Constraints
• Assumptions
• Risks
• Work Breakdown Structure
• Where? Context and boundaries
• When? Timeline
• How much? Costs

How to use it

1. Read this Project Charter example beside Step 1 of the book: it shows what "done" looks like.
2. Open the blank template and write your own project into it.
3. Or let the free Project Together course do the typing: it reads your project board and writes this same document, with your numbers in it.

The blank template

Prefer to start from a blank page? Download the Project Charter Template.

The whole example, in one download

Every document of the Quality of Life example, the templates of the ten steps and the Horizon Transport corporate example are in the Together Kit of Project Management in 10 Steps, free for readers of the book. See the book.

Source: PMBOK Guide, Eighth Edition (Project Management Institute).

Download this project charter example and use it as a reference for your own project.

Project Charter Template — Free Download (PMBOK 8)

Blank template: Project Charter Template