Initiation
The Initiation Process is the first process in the Project Management Life Cycle. In this process the project has to be defined. Business needs, project justification, project description, scope, purpose and deliverables are defined, all in the Project Charter
The Project Manager develops the Project Charter, that it is subject to approval by the Project Sponsor
The next step is Create Project Charter
If you use gedproEPM, this process is developed in Initiation of a project with gedproEPM