IT Project Management, 2nd Edition

12.5. Creating the Final Report

As with every other phase of the project, documentation is required. The good news is that the final documentation of the project does not have to be an in-depth novel of all of the work completed. If you have completed cumulative progress reports throughout the project, consider the final report one last cumulative record with a few extra ingredients. The collection of all of the cumulative reports may serve as a final record of each phase's work with a few extra parts. You will need

• The project vision statement that introduced the project

• The project proposal that you may have used to sell management on the idea of the technical implementation—or the supporting information for the project that was assigned to ...