Close Project

The inputs into the close project process include the project management plan, contract documentation, enterprise environmental factors, organizational process assets, work performance information, and the deliverables. The project plan and contract documentation have been described several times already in this book.

The enterprise environmental factors include the organization's culture and structure. Standards, as established by the industry or government regulations, are also part of the enterprise environmental factors.

The people available for the project are a major part of the internal environmental factors, as are the personnel administration guidelines set up by the company. Another important internal environmental factor is the stakeholder risk tolerances, which will determine how you will manage the risks that occur in the execution of projects.

An external factor in the enterprise environment will be the marketplace conditions. These conditions are outside the control of the organization but will still influence how the project is executed and will probably influence whether the project is actually chosen in the first place.

The work performance information will come from the various performance reports that are done throughout the project, and your job, as outlined before, is to manage the variances between the planned and the actual in the execution of the project.

The outputs of the close project process are the administrative closure procedures. These will be the guidelines that are needed in order to bring full administrative closure to the project, and they should be clearly recorded and kept throughout the project. Without these, the project will go on and on and on... The procedures must be agreed upon early in the project, and then as the end of a project phase or the project itself approaches, the procedures should be implemented to make sure that the project is successfully closed from an administrative standpoint.

Q.	Marketplace conditions are an example of ________ enterprise environmental factors.
		A.	Tactical
		B.	Strategic
		C.	External
		D.	Internal

The answer is C. These factors are not under the control of the organization and in turn the project manager. However, external factors have as much bearing on the ability to execute a project as internal factors.