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Software Project Management in Practice
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Software Project Management in Practice

by Pankaj Jalote
January 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
288 pages
6h 9m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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12.1. PROJECT CLOSURE ANALYSIS

Project closure analysis is the key to learning from the past so as to provide future improvements. To achieve this goal, it must be done carefully in an atmosphere of safety so that lessons can be captured and used to improve the process and future projects. Before we describe the details of the closure analysis report, we briefly discuss the role of closure analysis and its implementation.

12.1.1. The Role of Closure Analysis

The objective of a postmortem or closure analysis is “to determine what went right, what went wrong, what worked, what did not, and how it could be made better the next time.”2 Relevant information must be collected from the project, primarily for use by future projects. That is, the purpose ...

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