Business Intelligence/Project charter

Purpose: Clearly identify the objectives of the BI project. The goals of the project must be made clear to the stakeholders.
Input: All documentation
Activities: Consolidate Documentation from planning stage
Outputs: Acceptance of project charter by frame stakeholders
Documentation: Project charter

It is assumed that a project proposal has been delivered and accepted. The next step is to develop a project charter. The project charter is usually a short document that refers to more detailed documents such as a new offering request or a request for proposal. The project charter establishes the authority assigned to the project manager. This is a project management tool used to define the scope, objectives and participants in a project. See wikipedia section on Project Charter or [1].

Purpose

The purpose of the project charter is to document:

Reasons for Project
Objectives and constraints
Directions concerning the solution
Identities of the main stakeholders

Charter contents

The charter should contain:

Preliminary delineation of roles and responsibilities
An outline of project objectives
Identities of the main stakeholders
Project manager's authority
References to important project documents

Uses

The three main uses of the project charter:

To authorize the project - using a comparable format, projects can be ranked and authorized by Return on Investment.
Serves as the primary sales document for the project - ranking stakeholders have a 1-2 page summary to distribute, present, and keep handy for fending off other project or operations runs at project resources.
As a focus point throughout the project - for example: project as people walk in to team meetings and use in change control meetings to ensure tight scope management.