CompTIA Project+ (PK0-005)Project Life Cycle PhasesMedium
A project manager is initiating a new product development project. The project team needs a formal document that authorizes the project manager to apply organizational resources to project activities and provides a high-level overview of the project's objectives and success criteria. What is this essential document?
- AProject Scope Statement
- BProject Charter
- CProject Management Plan
- DWork Breakdown Structure (WBS)
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Correct answer: B. Project Charter
The Project Charter is the formal document that authorizes the existence of a project and gives the project manager the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. The Project Scope Statement provides a detailed description of the project scope, deliverables, and exclusions, but it doesn't authorize the project.
- C. The Project Management Plan is a comprehensive document that integrates all subsidiary plans and baselines, developed after the project charter.
- D. The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a hierarchical decomposition of the total scope of work, created after the project is authorized.
Project Charter
A formal document that authorizes the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.
- Issued by the project initiator or sponsor.
- Created during the initiation phase.
- Contains high-level project objectives, scope, and stakeholders.
- Formalizes the project and empowers the PM.
Memory trick: Charter grants authority, Scope defines work, Plan guides execution.