How we source the charter templates and frameworks
Cost ranges on this site are based on public reference material across the relevant landscape. The publishers below are representative of the kind of source that informs our positioning, not an exhaustive extraction map per figure. A specific figure on a specific page is not necessarily anchored to a single named publisher.
Sources
- PMI PMBOK published guidance. Project Management Institute PMBOK Guide 7th edition (and prior editions where still relevant) on charter content and approval flow. PMI Practice Standard for Project Management.
- PRINCE2 published guidance. AXELOS PRINCE2 published guidance on Project Initiation Documents (PID), Project Brief, and the Project Mandate to PID flow. PRINCE2 Agile published guidance for hybrid environments.
- Agile and lean published frameworks. Spotify Engineering Culture published material on inception decks, Atlassian Playbook on project kick-off, the Lean Canvas published format (Ash Maurya's Running Lean), and the Scrum Guide.
- Practitioner survey data. Public r/projectmanagement community discussions, PMI Pulse of the Profession project-success research (where pricing and methodology context is published).
What we deliberately do not publish
- Personalised charter writing service. This site publishes templates and methodology. It does not provide individual charter-writing consultation.
- Locked-down 'premium' templates. All templates on this site are free to download and adapt.
- Personal project data. Template downloads do not require an email. The site does not transmit, log, or store charter-customisation inputs.
Update cadence
Site values update only when the underlying reality changes. Triggers:
- New PMBOK Guide edition release
- Material PRINCE2 published guidance update
- Widely-adopted new charter framework reaches material practitioner adoption
Cosmetic date bumps are not made.
Editorial position
This site is operated by Digital Signet, an independent AI-development studio. Digital Signet does not sell paid templates, does not run a project-management consultancy, does not offer PMP / PRINCE2 certification training, and does not accept paid placements from any project-management software or training vendor. See /about for the operator and the wider network.
Editorial direction is set by Oliver Wakefield-Smith. Drafts are produced via Digital Signet's autonomous AI development methodology and reviewed against the editorial framework before publication.
Contact
For methodology questions, corrections, or scenarios that don't fit cleanly: [email protected].