Project Integration Management:

Project Integration Management includes the processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify, and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the Project Management Process Groups.

In the project management context, integration includes characteristics of unification, consolidation, articulation, and integrative actions that are crucial to project completion, successfully managing stakeholder expectations, and meeting requirements.

Project Integration Management also includes the activities needed to manage project documents to ensure consistency with the project management plan. 

Develop Project Charter:

The process of developing a document that formally authorizes a project or phase. The approved project charter formally initiates the project. A project manager is identified as early in the project. Project charter provides the project manager with the authority to apply resources to project activities. 

Project charter documents the initial requirements that satisfy the stakeholder’s needs and requirements. Key project stakeholders should sign the project charter to acknowledge agreement on the need and intent of the project. Projects are authorized by someone external to the project such as sponsor or PMO. Initiator will create the project charter.

Inputs:

Project Statement of Work:

The statement of work (SOW) is a narrative description of products or services to be delivered by the project. Project initiator or sponsor provides the statement of work based on business needs, product or service requirements. Statement of work can be received from the customer as a part of bid document for external projects.

SOW references:

        Business need

        Product scope description

       Strategic plan

Business Case:

The business case or similar document provides the necessary information from a business standpoint to determine whether or not the project is worth the required investment. The requesting organization or customer, in the case of external projects may write the business case.

The business case is created as a result of one of the following:

        Market demand

        Organizational need

        Customer request

        Technological advance

        Legal requirement

        Ecological impacts

        Social need

Contract:

A contract is an input if the project is being done for an external customer.

Enterprise Environmental Factors:

The enterprise environmental factors that can influence the develop project charter process include, but are not limited to:

        Government or industry standards

        Organization infrastructure

        Marketplace conditions

Organizational Process Assets:

The organizational process assets that can influence the develop project charter process include, but not limited to:

       Organizational standard processes, policies and standardized process definitions for use in the organization

        Templates

        Historical information and lessons learned knowledge base

Tools and Techniques:

Expert Judgment:

Expert Judgment is often used to assess the inputs used to develop the project charter. Such judgment and expertise is applied to any technical and management details during this process.

Outputs:

Project Charter:

Project charter documents the business needs, current understanding of the customer needs and the new product, service or result that is intended to satisfy such as:

Project purpose or justification

Measurable project objectives and related success criteria

High-level requirements

High-level project description

High-level risks

Summary milestone schedule

Summary budget

Project approval requirements

Assigned project manager, responsibility and authority level

Name and authority of the sponsor or other person authorizing the project charter.