Microsoft Project Fundamentals

Lesson 14Retain Project History

LESSON OBJECTIVES

• Define the project review and explain its importance.
• Name the types of stakeholders who should participate in the project review.
• Specify the three steps for a constructive project review process.
• Identify methods for gathering feedback about project challenges and successes.
• Define the project archive and explain its importance.
• Cite examples of documents that should be included in the project archive.

Now that your project sponsor has signed off on project acceptance, you're really just about finished. There are only a few more tasks to complete the closing process of your project. Before you and your team scatter to other responsibilities, take the time to capture lessons learned and archive important project documents.

In this lesson, you learn how to work with your project team in reflecting on the project and conducting the project review to gather lessons learned. You effectively document your project processes and archive its history. These final closing activities ensure that you and your team articulate and record the challenges and successes, not only for your own professional development, but for the success of future project managers and teams implementing similar types of projects.

Document Lessons Learned

You can probably name at least five things you would have done differently in this project if you had the benefit of hindsight. You can probably also count off another five aspects of the project ...