Charter Plan

A project charter is a document that outlines the scope of a project to help teams understand components such as the purpose, objectives, tasks, and stakeholders. Charters also detail how future decisions will be made.

The purpose of a project charter is to align and provide all the functions and people with clear goals, expectations and limitations, and coordination mechanisms. In next weeks summative assessment, you will design a project charter for the merger of Dollar Tree and Family Dollar to drive project and organizational performance and support organizational goals.

This weeks assignment allows you to become familiar with the 2 companies, Dollar Tree and Family Dollar. This information will be used in the Week 2 summative assessment.

Review the Learn: Part Five Supporting Case and in the Wk 1 Learning Activities folder.

Compose a 175- to 350-word document for your Project Charter Preparation, and ensure you:

• Describe each company and the industry (as it was in 2013).
• Develop a list of at least 5 issues that will need to be addressed for the merger to succeed.
• Determine 2 objectives for the merger and recommend at least 1 measure for each objective.
• Justify why you selected the 5 issues and the 3 objectives for the merger.

Resources:

https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=85d986b1-a4b6-3c19-be39-a4536a2147f2

Dollar Tree, Inc. to Acquire Family Dollar Stores, Inc. to Create North Americas Leading Discount Retailer. (2014). Business Wire (English).

https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=bb0897f6-189a-3a88-a2cf-435cabf59e3c

Dollar Tree Stores SWOT Analysis. (2013). Dollar Tree Stores SWOT Analysis, 110.

Robinson, D. G., & Depass, M. (2023). What Better Leadership Looks Like. Talent Development, 77(10), 50-55. https://www.proquest.com/trade-journals/what-better-leadership-looks-like/docview/2874576851/se-2