Integrated Project Management

Project Closure

Managing a significant project is absolutely a full-time job. The project manager is kept extremely busy near a project's end, monitoring its progress and preparing for shutdown. When walking about and visiting the workstations, he or she must re-emphasize the need for good communication among task leaders; encourage the give and take that supports the internal customer principle; be attentive to the project timetable; actively help task leaders get their tasks started and completed on time; monitor the Gantt chart; and as some original estimates overrun, alert downstream task leaders to the scheduling changes. If a task finishes early, which occasionally happens, more time is bought for the risk factor. With an early finish, ...