12th Understand Project Closing Activities

Starvation

Resources get cut off.

Budget cuts,

Team members get moved

Equipment and supplies are withheld

Extinction

All project activity has ended. Successful project or not.

Addition

Project activity gets absorbed into day-to-day operations either as a new business unit

Integration

The project is integrated with the rest of the organization

Transition Plan

The goal is to provide everything the new owners need to know in order to update and maintain the product

Release Planning

Term used in Agile environment where we plan when to release features to end users

Transition Plan Objectives

Delivery/Go-live date

Knowledge transfer

Documentation

Training Plans

Assets Transfer

Maintenance requirements

Warranty period

Post-implementation support

Ongoing costs

Verification

Where we inspect the product for correctness

Always happens before Validation

Validation

The customer formally accepts that the completed deliverables match the agreed scope

Lessons Learned

Should be noted throughout the project and then collated in the closing phase.

Primary purpose to improve future projects

Phase Gate Review

a point at which a decision is made whether to continue or not

Iteration Review

The work performed in the last sprint is reviewed

Retrospective

The team review what went well and what didn't in the last sprint

Project Sign-off

Project Sponsor formally closes the project

Project Closeout Report

-Summary level description

-Cost objectives

-Scope objectives

-Quality objectives

-Schedule performance

-Summary of risks and issues

-Summary of how business needs were met