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Project Charter Template

Start a project with a clear purpose, scope, owner, milestones, and approval record.

Standard charter

Detailed initiation document with objectives, scope, deliverables, stakeholders, constraints, risks, and sign-off.

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Simple charter

Condensed one-page charter for smaller projects.

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What the charter covers

Record the business need, objectives and success criteria, in-scope and out-of-scope work, major deliverables, stakeholder roles, milestones, assumptions, constraints, high-level risks, and sponsor approval. The shorter version keeps the essentials on one page.

A charter frames a proposed project; this general template is not a contract or governance certification.

Printing and privacy

Choose the PDF that matches your paper and print at Actual Size, or edit the Word document or spreadsheet first. These blank files download directly. This page has no online form and does not collect project, stakeholder, or requester information.

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