TUTORIALS
- Tutorial Home
- Using SmartDraw Business Process Management
- What is a Business Process?
- Why Actively Manage Processes?
- Where do I start?
- Why use SmartDraw?
- Define a Problem and Select a Project
- Use a Decision Matrix to Select a Project
- Plan the Project
- Document the Existing Processes
- Flowchart Your Improved Process
- Audit and Evaluate Your Solution
- Conclusion
- Other Tutorials
- BPM Examples
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The Blank Project Charter SmartTemplate
Plan the Project
Once you've settled on a project—a process you want to improve—you can outline the goals, identify responsible team members, and create a timeline. You can formalize the creation of the project using a Project Charter. A Project Charter lists the title of the project, its leader, its stakeholders, its team members, as well as its scope and goals. It also serves as a rough timeline of all the major steps in the project.
SmartDraw provides some templates for Project Charters, but you can also create your own using SmartDraw tables.
A SIPOC Analysis Chart Created with SmartDraw
Identify Key Elements - SIPOC Chart
Next, complete a SIPOC chart to identify the key elements of the project before any work begins.
A SIPOC chart prompts you to consider the Suppliers of your process, the Inputs to the process, a rough map of the Process, the Outputs of the process, and the Customers (internal or external) who receive the process outputs.
You can easily create a SIPOC chart using SmartDraw's SIPOC Analysis SmartTemplate, or SmartDraw's table functionality in just a few minutes.
