Write a project charter your sponsor will actually sign. Fill in the objectives, scope, milestones, team, and risks, watch the charter build itself, and export it to Word or PDF.
Leave empty to use the sponsor and project manager. Signature and date lines are added to the Word and PDF export.
Our marketing site was built in 2021 and no longer reflects the product. Mobile visitors make up 58% of traffic but convert at half the desktop rate, key pages take over 4 seconds to load, and every copy change needs a developer. The redesign gives marketing a fast, mobile-first site they can update on their own.
| Milestone | Target date |
|---|---|
| Discovery complete | Nov 13, 2026 |
| Design approved | Dec 11, 2026 |
| Content migrated | Jan 29, 2027 |
| Launch | Feb 15, 2027 |
| Post-launch review | Mar 12, 2027 |
| Name | Role | Responsibility |
|---|---|---|
| Maria Lopez | Sponsor | Approves scope and budget, final sign-off |
| Sam Carter | Project manager | Plan, schedule, and weekly status reports |
| Priya Nair | Lead designer | Design system and page templates |
| Tom Becker | Frontend developer | Build, CMS integration, performance |
| Content team | Content owners | Copy updates and page migration |
Budget: $48,000 (design $18k, development $24k, CMS license $6k per year)
Resources: 1 designer, 2 developers at 60%, 1 content writer, agency support for QA
| Risk | Impact | Mitigation |
|---|---|---|
| Organic traffic drops after URL changes | High | Full redirect map, crawl before and after launch, watch Search Console daily for two weeks |
| Content migration takes longer than planned | Medium | Freeze new content two weeks before launch, migrate the top 20 pages first |
| Endless design feedback loops | Medium | One consolidated feedback round per milestone, sponsor breaks ties |
| Name | Role | Signature | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maria Lopez | VP Marketing (Sponsor) | ______ | ______ |
| Sam Carter | Project Manager | ______ | ______ |
A project charter is the document that officially starts a project. In one to three pages it explains why the project exists, what it has to achieve, where its boundaries are, who is involved, and who has the authority to approve it. When the sponsor signs the charter, the project manager gets a clear mandate to spend the budget and pull in the people listed in it.
The charter is not the project plan. It does not list every task or schedule every week. Its job is alignment: getting the sponsor, the team, and the stakeholders to agree on the goal and the limits before anyone starts work. Most scope fights later in a project come from a charter that was never written, or one that skipped the out of scope list.
Use the example buttons at the top of the generator to load a complete charter for a marketing website redesign, a sales CRM migration, or a mobile app MVP. Each one shows measurable objectives, a real out of scope list, risks with mitigations, and an approval table - edit any field to adapt it to your own project, or switch to the one-page format to see the lean version.
A charter is a snapshot. The day it is signed, the work moves somewhere else - and that is where most charters are forgotten. Download the milestones and deliverables as CSV and import them into t0ggles to turn them into tasks with due dates on a shared board. Track milestones and dependencies on the Gantt chart, send status reports from real progress, and keep the charter itself pinned as a note so the team can always check the scope line.
Prefer to write it by hand? Copy one of these templates into your doc or wiki.
The lean version most teams actually read. Fits on a single page.
PROJECT CHARTER - [Project name] Sponsor: [Name, title] Project manager: [Name] Timeline: [Start date] - [Target end date] 1. Background & Purpose [Why this project exists: the problem, the opportunity, and the business case in 2-4 sentences.] 2. Objectives 1. [Measurable objective with a number and a date] 2. [Measurable objective] 3. Scope In scope: - [What the project will deliver] Out of scope: - [What it will not touch] 4. Success Criteria - [How you will know the project succeeded] 5. Milestones - [Milestone] - [Target date] - [Milestone] - [Target date] 6. Team & Stakeholders - [Name] | [Role] | [Responsibility] 7. Approval [Name, title] Signature: ____________ Date: ________
Every section the PMBOK guide recommends, for larger or regulated projects.
PROJECT CHARTER - [Project name] Sponsor: [Name, title] Project manager: [Name] Timeline: [Start date] - [Target end date] 1. Background & Purpose [Problem statement and business case.] 2. Objectives 1. [Specific, measurable, time-bound objective] 2. [Objective] 3. Scope In scope: - [Included work] Out of scope: - [Excluded work] 4. Deliverables - [Deliverable] 5. Success Criteria - [Measurable success criterion] 6. Milestones - [Milestone] - [Target date] 7. Team & Stakeholders - [Name] | [Role] | [Responsibility] 8. Budget & Resources Budget: [Amount and breakdown] Resources: [People, tools, vendors] 9. Risks - [Risk] | Impact: [Low / Medium / High] | Mitigation: [Plan] 10. Assumptions & Constraints Assumptions: - [Assumption] Constraints: - [Constraint] 11. Approval [Name, title] Signature: ____________ Date: ________ [Name, title] Signature: ____________ Date: ________
Vision, mission, and working agreements for a Scrum or Kanban team.
AGILE PROJECT CHARTER - [Project name] Vision [One sentence: the future this project creates.] Mission [What the team will build, and for whom.] Success Criteria - [Outcome metric] - [Outcome metric] Scope Boundaries In: [What the team owns] Out: [What the team will not do] Team & Roles - Product owner: [Name] - Scrum master / delivery lead: [Name] - Team: [Names] Working Agreements - Sprint length: [2 weeks] - Definition of done: [Criteria] - Ceremonies: [Planning, daily standup, review, retro] Release Plan - [Release or increment] - [Target date] Risks & Dependencies - [Risk or dependency] - [Plan]
This generator gives you a signed starting point. A t0ggles board keeps it moving - milestones, owners, dependencies, and progress in one place your whole team can see. Try it free - no card required.