# AI Project Charter and Delivery Plan

## 1. Charter

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Purpose / business outcome |  |
| Sponsor / decision owner |  |
| Product owner |  |
| Project manager |  |
| Technical / data / evaluation owners |  |
| Risk / security / operations owners |  |
| Start / target / review dates |  |
| Budget / resource envelope |  |

### Scope and non-scope

### Baseline and success/acceptance

### Constraints, assumptions, and closure criteria

## 2. Phase gates

| Gate | Evidence required | Owner | Target | Status | Decision |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|

## 3. WBS and milestones

| ID | Work package / deliverable | Owner | Estimate / range | Dependency | Acceptance | Milestone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

Cover product, UX, data, AI, engineering, evaluation, safety, operations, adoption, vendor, and governance.

## 4. Critical path and capacity

- Critical-path chain:
- Bottleneck roles/resources:
- Contingency/reserve:
- Time-boxed discovery tasks and decisions:

## 5. RACI

| Deliverable / decision | A | R | C | I |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scope and outcome |  |  |  |  |
| Architecture/model/vendor |  |  |  |  |
| Data authorization |  |  |  |  |
| Evaluation and quality gate |  |  |  |  |
| Residual risk and launch |  |  |  |  |
| Incident shutdown / rollback |  |  |  |  |
| Acceptance and handoff |  |  |  |  |

## 6. RAID summary

| ID/type | Statement | P/I | Trigger | Prevention/response | Owner | Due/review | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

## 7. Governance and communication

| Cadence | Purpose / decision | Participants | Input | Output / owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|

## 8. Change control

- Change thresholds:
- Approvers:
- Required impact analysis:
- Current approved baseline:

## 9. Vendor and procurement

- Scope/SLA/data/security/change/exit requirements:
- Acceptance evidence:
- Alternative/fallback:

## 10. Release and acceptance

- Evaluation, safety, capacity, and cost gates:
- Canary stages and rollback:
- Operations/support/training readiness:
- Sign-off owners:

## 11. Handover and closure

- Service, monitoring, incident, maintenance, and re-evaluation owner:
- Open items transferred:
- Documentation and local archive:
- Retrospective and improvement actions: