Overture: Charter

The Story

The Project Charter: What a Wagner Overture Teaches About Starting Right

One chord. A hundred and thirty-six bars. Not a single word spoken — and yet everyone in the hall already knows what kind of evening this will be. That is what an overture does. And it is exactly what a project charter should do, long before the first sprint. In this episode: why the most-skipped document in project management is the one that decides whether your project ends in applause — or as a permanent construction site.