Develop Project Charter is the process of developing a document that formally authorizes the existence of a project

and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organizational resources to project activities.

The key benefits of this process are that it provides a direct link between the project and the strategic objectives of the organization,

creates a formal record of the project, and shows the organizational commitment to the project.

This process is performed once or at predefined points in the project.

The inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs of the process are depicted in Figure 4.1

. Figure 4.2 depicts the data flow diagram for the process.