Project Management/Closure

Closure

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the closure portion of Project+ certification include:^[1]

• Explain the importance and benefits of formal project closure
  • Confirm and document objectives that were completed/not complete
  • Release resources
  • Provide historical information for future projects
  • Close contracts
  • Standards compliance
    • Document retention compliance
  • Post-project review
    • Meeting to review what went right / what went wrong
• Identify circumstances in which project/phase closure might occur and identify steps to take when closure occurs
  • Phase closure
  • Project completion
  • Stage completion
  • Component completion
  • Project cancellation
• Identify the components and purpose of closing documentation
  • Lessons learned
    • Strengths / weaknesses
  • Close report
    • Historical data
    • Summary of costs
  • Post mortem analysis
    • Documents reasons for early closure and impact
  • Final individual performance appraisal
    • Final review of performance
  • Transition plan

References

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