Article 6 Project charter and execution report
United Kingdom
The project charter shall comprise a description of:
the scope, objectives and problem or opportunity, including the expected beneficiaries and benefits of a solution and the quantitative and qualitative indicators for measuring such benefits;
the approach, including the organisational aspects of the project, such as phases, outputs and milestones, and measures to facilitate multilingual communication;
stakeholders and users, and the related governance structure;
details of the solution, including its coherence and dependencies in relation to other solutions, a breakdown of anticipated costs, timing and requirements and an estimate of the total costs of ownership, including, if any, the annual operational costs;
features of the solution; and
constraints, including security and data protection requirements.
The execution report shall comprise a description of:
the scope, objectives and problem or opportunity measured against the project charter;
the project effectiveness, including a measurement of achievements, incurred costs, actual timing and requirements against the project charter, an analysis of the expected return on investment and the total costs of ownership, including the annual operational costs;
organisational aspects, including the suitability of the applied governance structure and, where appropriate, recommendations concerning a post-execution governance structure;
where appropriate, the proposed plan for rolling out the solution at the operational phase and the service level indicators; and
the end-user and technical support material available.