Completing a Project
Lead Advocacy Group: Program Management
Even with clear completion criteria, teams and stakeholders sometimes find it challenging to conclude a project. Typically, these challenges to extend a project come from overt external influences and from internal pride in workmanship, including the desire to broaden a solution within the current project scope (e.g., "it works OK, but it would be much better if we just added..."); to stabilize a solution beyond the previously agreed-to acceptance criteria; and to handle the ongoing issues that surface after deployment.
When a team is ready to close down a project, this process involves two activities: ramping down a team and closing out a project.
Ramping Down a Team
Rarely does a project ...
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