Is the PM responsible of producing the Executive Summary? My understanding is that this Summary, along with the majority of the Business Case, should be developed by the Executive role. I have been requested to produce an Executive Summary since I will manage the project but I lack the understanding of what the project is actually trying to achieve. The Executive Manager in this case has set up this project as a Business Process Improvement by using SharePoint but hasn't given me any direction so I cannot determine when we will be able to consider that the improvement has been reached. I am not sure if this Executive Summary is meant to be part of our Business Case or if it's just a document to inform Senior Management of our plans. Anyhow I would like to make sure whose responsibility is this to approach the right person. As PM have you ever had to produce these Summaries? What other roles' support have you used?

Executive Summary has to be developed **by** business executives (CEO, COO, etc.) using the information provided and prepared by VP/Marketing, VP/Engineering, VP/anything. A project manager of the future project is not involved at this stage. Because the project is not yet authorized and Project Charter is not yet baselined (the PM simply can't start spending resources).

On the other hand, a Project Manager may take a participation in a preliminary/preparation project, which will produce (for example) cost-benefit analysis of the future project, or marketing plan, or preliminary technical solution.

Again, there are **two projects** : 1) create the Executive Summary, 2) implement it.