The link below is a Project Management Institute (PMI) Conference Paper about the project charter written and presented at a PMI Conference in 2005. Here is the link to the paper:

https://www.pmi.org/learning/library/charter-selling-project-7473

After reading this paper, answer the following questions in this Discussion Board thread:

1) Why is the project charter considering a project's "best marketing tool"?

2) What role does the project manager play in developing the project charter?

3) What influence does the project charter have on the project organization? Why?

4) What specific information is found in a project charter?

5) Under what conditions can a project charter become a collection of documents instead of a single document?

6) Who typically writes the charter and who signs it?

7) Why is it impossible for the project charter to include all project scope?

8) Why is the project charter not considering a detailed document?

9) Under what conditions a project will have many charters?

10) How does a project charter help an organization gain or improve organizational maturity?