Part VClosing
To most of us, it may be common sense that every start has a finish. A project that has been started will have an end. As I explained in Chapter 1, people were doing projects even when there was no field of project management. The underlying philosophy of project management is to perform projects deliberately—that is, to plan them and to monitor and control them and so forth. Finishing a project deliberately means finishing it in a controlled way, not just letting it finish—even when it’s cancelled.
The main elements of a successful project closure include ensuring that all the planned work is completed, the planned outcome has been delivered and transitioned to the appropriate party, the project or phase information is archived ...
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