From the course: Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories (2015)
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Creating your project charter
From the course: Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories (2015)
Creating your project charter
- I once worked for an organization on a large Agile project. The project had started about six months earlier. After I arrived I asked to see the project charter. I figured that the charter is always a good way to see the overall direction of the project. One thing I immediately noticed is there wasn't any success criteria to finish the project. There was also no overall mission. I asked about this and the scrum master said, as long as they keep delivering value the team would be successful. In some ways the scrum master was right, a key tenant of Agile is adapting to deliver value, not predicting the value before your begin. But there's a difference between the team's success and the project meeting its vision. I wasn't suggesting that a team should build a charter to control the value. The customer should create a formal charter to set the initial direction and record the project's reason for starting. An Agile Charter should be an agreement and not a plan. It should list what…
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