Closing the Project

At the conclusion of the project, the project manager schedules a meeting called a post-implementation review, project review, or postmortem. The purpose of the session is to gather and summarize project information for a number of potential users, including stakeholders, organizational managers, the project team, and other project managers. Solid, well-documented information about the project provides a basis for success in future projects, and is included in the final project report.

In many organizations, a lessons-learned brainstorming session is used to elicit ideas that can be useful in other projects. Lessons can be positive experiences, or techniques that should be repeated, as well as procedures that need to be buried in the deepest hole the organization can locate.

In addition to a summary of the postmortem, the final project report should minimally include the following reports and views:

  • Reports: Project Summary, Milestones, Budget, Overbudget Tasks, Overbudget Resources

  • Views: Tracking Gantt, Gantt Chart with Variance Table

Your final report will include other information dictated by the type of project. The XYZ-Branch Office Training Project final report, for example, will include pretest and posttest results, trainee and trainer evaluations of each course, and recommendations for future training. The electronic version of each final report includes a copy of the Microsoft Project project file.



Mastering Microsoft Project 2002
Mastering Microsoft Project 2002
ISBN: 0782141471
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 241

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