Project Closure and Evaluation Concepts

A collection of vocabulary flashcards focused on project closure and evaluation concepts.

Completed project

The most common circumstance for project closure.

Retrospectives

Processes designed to capture lessons learned to improve future projects.

Final report

Summarizes project performance and provides useful information for continuous improvement.

Executive summary

Highlights the key findings and facts relating to the project implementation.

Review and analysis

Examines the causes of problems, issues, and successes in detail.

Recommendations

Presents major improvement actions that should be made.

Lessons learned

Part of the final report designed to be most useful for future projects.

Appendix

Includes backup data or details of analysis for follow-up.

Failed project

Closure for projects that are easily closed down due to circumstances beyond the team's control.

Changed priority

Type of closure for projects that start high priority but are canceled due to rank erosion.

Project facilitator

A guide who leads the project team through an analysis of activities and aids in developing an action plan.

360-degree feedback

A multi-rater appraisal system replacing the traditional superior-subordinate performance feedback process.

Functional organization

Where the team member's area manager, not the project manager, assesses performance.

Owner

The individual assigned to serve as the contact point for information related to a retrospective.

Perpetual closure

Closure type for projects that seem never-ending and require methods for final closure.

Premature closure

Closure when a project is completed early with some parts eliminated.

Evaluation of team performance

An assessment of how effectively the project team and manager performed.

Survey

The typical mechanism used for evaluating teams, completed by team members.

Barriers to lessons learned

Factors that hinder effectively capitalizing on experiences and insights from past projects.

Distinguishing characteristics of retrospectives methodology

Features that define the methodology used in retrospectives.

Performance appraisals

Processes that identify strengths and weaknesses of individuals and develop improvement plans.