Chapter 4 - Five key documents to manage expecations and define sucess

Now we are on the fun part.
There are 5 documents PM needs to prepare before project starting.
1. Project proposal-assembles necessary information for a sponsor or project selection board.
2. Project charter-used to formally authorize the project manager for managing the project.
3. Statement of work(SOW)-represents the formal agreement between stakeholders about goals and constraints
4. Responsibility matrix-clarifies roles and authority of each stakeholder.
5. Communication planning matrix-used to identify who needs what information and how to get it to them.

In statement of work(SOW), we can image the content of agreement will be modified as an on-going base. Every time the change needed should be agreed by every stakeholder to make sure everyone in the same page.

Responsibility matrix can be useful to make sure there is less misinform or lost of communication or even less authority. With a clear matrix defined, every change or event can be sure either getting authority, execution or information as needed.