60 ARCHIVE EFFECTIVELY

It is the end of your project: the sponsor thinks you did an excellent job and the people who have to live with the change are happy. But it’s not quite over. All those documents, minutes, decisions, test notes and emails that you have accumulated over the length of the project have to go somewhere and it would not be right to dump them in the recycling bin. This is where archiving comes in. At some point in the future someone is bound to ask you why a particular task was or was not done. Archiving will mean you can get hold of the information easily to answer their question, but the files won’t be cluttering up your desk or network drive while you are trying to work on something else. Having the files available will ...

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