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JOURNEY TOWARDS
FINALISATION
BCE4813 PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Expected Outcomes:
• If appropriate, help people find their next project assignments. Help them develop a schedule
for winding down their involvement with your project while making sure they fulfill all their
remaining obligations.
• Consider holding a final project meeting or lunch to provide your team members closure on
their work and project relationships.
Announce to the organization that your project is
complete
• You can make this announcement in an e-mail, company intranet, in a meeting, or through an
organization-wide publication, such as a newsletter.
• This announcement for the following three reasons:
• To alert people in your organization that the planned outcomes of your project are now
available
• To confirm to people who supported your project that their efforts led to a successful
result
• To let people know they can no longer charge time or resources to your project
Identify techniques
Identify techniques
Recognize project and approaches that
and approaches that
achievements and didn’t work, and devise
worked, and devise
acknowledge people’s steps to ensure they
steps to ensure they’re
work. aren’t used again in
used in the future.
the future.
4.1 Preparing for the Evaluation Throughout the
Project
• Determine the benefits your project’s stakeholders wanted to realize when they
authorized your project.
• If your project is designed to change an existing situation, take before measures to
describe the existing situation so that you have something to compare to the after
measures.
> Identify additional project drivers you may have overlooked in the first stage of your
project. Your project drivers’ expectations serve as the criteria for defining your
project’s success, so you want to know who they all are before you begin your project’s
work
> Develop clear and detailed descriptions of all project objectives
> Include the activity Conduct a post-project evaluation in your Work Breakdown
Structure (WBS), and allow time and resources to per- form it.
Carrying out the work
• Tell team members that the project will have a post-project evaluation.
• Encourage team members to record issues, problems, and successes throughout their
project involvement in a handwritten or computerized project log. Review the log
when proposing topics for discussion at the post-project evaluation meeting.
• Maintain files of cost, labor-hour charges, and schedule performance reports
throughout the project.
• Progress reports
• Project logs
You can collect this • Cost reports
information from • Schedule reports
the following • Project memos, correspondence, and meeting
minutes
sources: • Interviews and surveys of customers, managers, and
team members
• Statement of the meeting’s purpose.
Prepare a • Specific meeting outcomes to be accomplished
• Highlights of project performance, including the
detailed following:
agenda for • Results, schedules, and resources
the post- • Approaches to project planning
project • Project-tracking systems and procedures
• Project communications
evaluation. • Project team practices and effectiveness
Consider • Recognition and discussion of special
including the achievements
following • Review of customer and management reactions
to the project
topics on your • Discussion of problems and issues
agenda: • Discussion of how to reflect experiences from this
project in future efforts
4.3 Conducting the Evaluation Meeting
• Invite all the people who participated in your project at all points
Invite the right throughout its life. If the list of potential invitees is too long, consider
people meeting separately with selected subgroups and then holding a general
session at which everyone reviews the results of the smaller meetings
and you solicit final comments and suggestions.
Declare at the > As a project manager, you run the post-project evaluation meeting.
beginning of the At its outset, you need to declare that the session is a time for self-
meeting that it’s examination and suggestions for ensuring the success of future projects. If
supposed to be people start to attack or criticize other participants, you can immediately
a learning bring the discussion back on track.
experience
rather than a > If people resist your attempts to redirect their conversations, you can
finger-pointing mention actions that you, as project manager, can take in the future to
session head off or deal with similar situations more effectively and then ask
people to share additional ideas.
• Identify what other people did well.
Encourage
people to: • Examine their own performance and see how
they could’ve handled situations differently.
Practices to
incorporate in
future projects
Practices to
avoid in future
projects
Thank you..