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Project Initiation,
Planning and Execution
Workshop Week 12
Project Closeout
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Workshop Objectives
• Understand the process
of closing out a project
• Identify the stages for
closing a project
• Examine the activities
associated with closing a
project
• Securing client
acceptance for a project
Close-out Phase
I. Complete outstanding tasks
II. Transferring assets to client
III. Embedding change and determining benefits
IV. Disbanding the team
V. Post-Implementation Review
Project Closing Process
• Progressive shut-down
• Transitioning resources
• Close out contracts
• Archive documents
• Celebrations
Progressive Shut-down
• Team
• Stakeholders
• Media
Workshop Activity
• In small groups of 2 or 3, and thinking about
Assessment 3,
– List the activities that might be involved in closing out
that project
• Share your results with the class
Stage V
Post-Implementation Review
• Review of ‘As Is’ versus plan
• Review budget to actuals
• Record technical difficulties and challenges
• Review success and failures
• Client sign-off
– Contractual closure
• Sponsor sign-off
– Investor approval
Review ‘As Is’
• Formal ‘audit’ or informal review
• Functionality delivered versus plan
– Planned activity
– Corrective measures
– New functionality added
Budget vs Actual
• Budgeted spend
• Actual spend
• Identify variances to plan
– Acceptable (+/- 10%)
– Under plan (<10%)
– Over plan (>10%)
• Costs associated with corrective measures
• Costs associated with added functionality
• Analysis of variances
• Lessons learned
Technical Difficulties
• What happened
• When did it occur
• Why did it happen (cause-effect)
• Lessons
Successes
• What happened
• When did it occur
• Why did it happen (cause-effect)
• Lessons
Failures
• What happened
• When did it occur
• Why did it happen (cause-effect)
• Lessons
Sponsor Sign-Off
• Acceptance criteria
• Final report delivered
• Formal signatures received
• Final payments, if required
Client Sign-Off
• Acceptance criteria
• Final report delivered
• Formal contractual signatures received
• Final payments, if required
• Testimonials received, if appropriate
Summary