Project Charter (and Data Dictionary)
In order to define all the essential components for the successful development of the project, a Project Charter document must be developed. You should make sure that all relevant details regarding the scope, requirements and risks of the project are well documented and the final version of this document should also be validated by the client. Your Project Charter should include the following sections:
- Identification of the team and main stakeholders involved
- Business challenge context and key numbers
- Identification of the project objective(s)
- Actions that will be informed by the final result (to be taken by end users)
- Summary of data to be used
- Main risks, assumptions and constraints & mitigation plan
- Project schedule (timeline & milestones)
- Communication tools, meetings and frequency
- Ownership of data, ethics and GDPR
The data dictionary is a document that allows anyone to easily understand a dataset. In this case, this dataset will be the one used in your PBL project. The document must present a detailed description of the information contained in the shared database, identifying variables/ features, their description, their source, among other. In case the database consists of different tables, you should also detail how they are related.
• Variable name • Type • Description • Example • # of distinct values (if applicable) • Source • Confidentiality • Min. value (if applicable) • Max. value (if applicable) • Mean (if applicable) • Volume (# of entries) • % missing values •