Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage, Fifth Edition

Project Closeout

1. LO 5.7 Discuss why effective scope management includes a project closeout stage.

Effective scope management also includes appropriate planning for a project’s termination. Although the process of effective project termination will be covered in great detail in Chapter 14, it is useful to reflect on the fact that even when planning for a project, we should be planning for the project’s conclusion. The project closeout step requires project managers to consider the types of records and reports they and their clients will require at the completion of the project.24 The earlier in the scope development process that these decisions are made, the more useful the information collected over the project’s development can be. Closeout ...