Integrated Project Management

Project Closure Celebration

The workforce achieves project closure through a celebration. For a small project, this can be a pizza and pop luncheon in the conference room. A few appropriate coffee mugs might be presented to individuals who have made particularly significant contributions. These people also should be given copies of the commendation letters that the project manager forwarded to their function managers for their personnel files.

Larger projects mean larger celebrations. One large research systems analysis organization operates projects that typically take one year or more. Many hundreds of thousands of dollars go toward the project's personnel salaries. Their closure ritual is distinctive: On the hour that the project report is ...