Introduction to completing your project

If you have followed steps 1 to 4 in this book, you should now have a successfully running project. However, one of the things that really differentiates the average project manager from the outstanding one who is always in demand, is the way the manager ends a project. Success in projects is not simply about producing deliverables, it is about producing deliverables and giving them over to your customer in the best way possible and making sure they can be used to meet the ‘why’ defined in your Project Definition.

The way you need to complete your project does vary considerably, depending on the nature of the project and the deliverables. There are many factors to consider when ending a project, most of ...

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