86 Project Management for the Oil and Gas Industry

• Approved corrective actions

• Approved preventive actions
• Approved defect repair
• Validated defect repair
• Deliverables

Step 7: Close Project

At its completion, a project must be formally closed. This involves perform-
ing the project closure portion of the project management plan or closure of
a phase of a multiphase project. There are two main procedures developed to
establish interactions necessary to perform the closure function:

• Administrative closure procedure: This provides details of all activi-

ties, interactions, and related roles and responsibilities involved in
executing the administrative closure of the project. It also covers
activities needed to collect project records, analyze project success
or failure, gather lessons learned, and archive project information.
• Contract closure procedure: This involves both product verification
and administrative closure for any existing contract agreements.
Contract closure procedure is an input to the close contract process.

Definition of Inputs to Step 7:

The inputs to Step 7 are the following:

• Project management plan.

• Contract documentation: This is an input used to perform the
contract closure process and includes the contract itself as well as
changes to the contract and other documentation, such as technical
approach, product description, or deliverable acceptance criteria and
procedures.
• Enterprise environmental factors.
• Organizational process assets.
• Work performance information.
• Deliverables, as previously described, and also as approved by the
integrated change control process.

Definition of Tools and Techniques of Step 7:

• Project management methodology
• PMIS
• Expert judgment