Project Closing

Overview/Description
 Project closure is often overlooked as one of the key phases of project management, resulting in a failure to recognize or capitalize on various important things that can happen during a project's final phase. In fact, the success of your next project may depend to some degree on how diligent you are in closing out your current project. In this course, you will learn how to carry out many key project closing activities.

Target Audience
 Business professionals and business managers across all business functional areas and industries who believe that basic project management skills will help them perform their job responsibilities more effectively

Expected Duration
6.5 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Closing Processes

  • recognize the benefits of properly closing out a project.
  • identify examples of the procedures that must be performed to conduct a procurement audit.
  • perform a procurement audit on a given project.
  • identify examples of the key elements of successful contract closeout.
  • effectively close out a given project contract.
  • identify examples of each of the archiving guidelines.

    • Project Wrap-up

  • recognize the benefits of wrapping up a project.
  • identify examples of the essential elements of a project wrap-up report.
  • develop a project wrap-up report designed for external project stakeholders, given a scenario.
  • identify the common goals of effective internal project wrap-up meetings.
  • conduct an internal project wrap-up meeting with a given project team.
  • identify examples of the criteria upon which to determine the level of success of a given project.
  • determine the level of success of a given project.

    • Course Number: PROJ0005