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PMO Standard/Templates
The project charter represents the formal signed agreement between the project sponsor and the project manager as to what will be done and how, the estimated cost and resources required, and the time frame for completion. The Project Charter helps you protect yourself against uncontrolled scope creep or last minute unapproved changes to the project work, its schedule and/or project cost. The purpose of the Charter is to provide you with general parameters and structure of the proposed project, including: •	the project objectives and outcomes, benefits, scope and risks; •	the project deliverables, schedule, milestones, and estimated costs; and •	the project organization, governance structure and stakeholders.
 * 1) 1 ===== Project Charter - Template =====

The Communication Plan sets the standards for how and when communications takes place for a project. This template offers you a structured approach to communicate with stakeholders while highlighting information needs and methods of distribution. An effective communication plan assists you in managing stakeholders during the execution of the project, facilitates team development, increases project performance, mitigate risks and is one of the most important enabling tools towards project success.
 * 1) 2 ===== Communication Plan – Template =====

This template offers you an opportunity to concisely summarize the outcomes of your project, document project successes and identify lessons learned. It highlights opportunities to improve processes or actions that could signal improvement in future CMHC project performance, outcome or impact. Your input will help improve management decision-making and will help you validate some of the tougher situations endured during the project’s life. It will help future project managers avoid similar difficulties.
 * 1) 3 ===== Closing and Lessons Learned – Template =====

Change control is a systematic approach to managing all changes made to a project. This template assists you to manage you project’s change requests so that approved changes are controlled, ensuring your project remains on schedule, within budget, and results in the agreed upon deliverables included in your objectives. The enclosed template will help you document how changes will be made under direction from the appropriate authority. It will also help you to “Focus on Results” by ensuring that you properly communicate the impact of those changes to the impacted personnel.
 * 1) 4 ===== Change Control – Template =====

The Project Support Tool template offers you a collection of logs to help you track every aspect of your project from actions, risks, decisions, communication activities, to project status reports. You can also take advantage of a comprehensive schedule to help you accurately assess your project’s time needs and control your schedule.
 * 1) 5 ===== Project Support Tool – Template ====