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Project Closing: Beth Hayes April 16, 2013

The document summarizes the key phases and activities involved in closing a project. It notes that project closing involves finalizing all project processes to formally conclude a project phase. Some of the main project closing activities mentioned are conducting lessons learned sessions with individual teams, developing a project closure report to make the end of the project official, and celebrating accomplishments. The document also contrasts traditional sequential project closing with agile project closing, which involves retrospectives and implementation planning at the end of each iteration rather than just at the end of the entire project.

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Project Closing: Beth Hayes April 16, 2013

The document summarizes the key phases and activities involved in closing a project. It notes that project closing involves finalizing all project processes to formally conclude a project phase. Some of the main project closing activities mentioned are conducting lessons learned sessions with individual teams, developing a project closure report to make the end of the project official, and celebrating accomplishments. The document also contrasts traditional sequential project closing with agile project closing, which involves retrospectives and implementation planning at the end of each iteration rather than just at the end of the entire project.

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PROJECT CLOSING

Beth Hayes
April 16, 2013
Project Closing…already?
• Oct-Nov 2011
Initiating • Project Charter and Scope Statement

• Jan-Jun 2012
Planning • Project Scope, Project Plan, Work Breakdown

• Jul-Sep 2012
Executing • Project Schedule

Monitoring & • Oct-Dec 2012


Controlling • Change, Risk & Issue Management

• Apr-Jun 2013
Closing • Lessons Learned & Project Closure
Definitions
A Project is a temporary endeavor undertaken to
create a unique, product, service or result.

Project Closing is the process of finalizing all


activities across the project process groups to
formally close the project phase.

Those processes to formally terminate all activities of


a project or phase, and transfer the completed
product to others or close a cancelled project.
Favorite Phase yet most difficult
• Huge sense of accomplishment
• Timeout for reflection and learning
• Team recognition and celebration
• Good for the soul

Challenges:
• Declaring ‘done’
• But there’s more to do
• The sticky factor
Why Bother?
• Insanity Avoidance
• Product acceptance
• Transfer product to service/business owner
• Acknowledge accomplishments
• Closure report makes it official
• Celebrate
• What say you?
Project Closing activities
Traditional Agile
• End of project • End of each project
• Lessons Learned iteration
• Individual teams/working groups • Retrospective
• Meeting ground rules • Productive/enjoyable
• Was the project successful? • Confusing
• What did we do well? • Frustrating
• What are the opportunities for • Need more of
improvement? • Keep the same
• Need less of
• Project Closure Report
• New ideas
• Implementation tasks at next
• Implementation tasks at next
project
iteration
Simple visual tool
Start Doing Stop Doing

More Of Less Of
Agile Retrospective
All team members reflect on the last iteration to make continuous
process improvements:
1. What went well?
2. What could be improved for the next iteration?

Talk about
- What worked well that we don’t want to forget?
- What did we learn?
- What should we be doing differently?
- What still puzzles us?
- What do we need to discuss in greater detail?
- Plans for solutions?
Taken from NetObjectvies
Templates & Example
• Traditional Lessons Learned (template)
• Traditional Project Closure Report (example)
• James Shore: The Art of Agile (template)

https://wikispaces.psu.edu/display/ITSPMWG/Project+Management+Templates+and+Information
We did it!

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