Project Closure

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Project Closure Finally
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What is project closure?
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• Project Closure Phase is the last phase of the
  Project Life Cycle. The commencement of the
  Project Closure Phase is determined by the
  completion of all Project Objectives and
  acceptance of the end product by the customer

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What is project closure?

• Project closure ensure that
• 1. Outcomes match the stated goals of the
  project.
• 2. Guy is happy with the results.
• 3. Critical knowledge is captured.
• 4. The team feels a sense of completion.
• 5. Project resources are released for new
  projects.
• The Project Manager shall complete this
  procedure.

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Before going to production

• Conduct Readiness meeting
• Make sure all content/ DB/ Scope is in
• Task assignment for upload period
• Go over upload check list make sure we are all
  synched.
• Close or complete remaining tasks in the project
  schedule.
• Make sure all relevant documents are updated
• Make sure all specified versions bugs are either
  closed or moved to the next project.
• Prepare a plan for handling ongoing product
  support.
• Prepare a final project status report.

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Version was uploaded is it the end?
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Are you sure?
YES!!!!!!!
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Stability Period

• Stability period should be about 2 weeks 1
  month.
• Work closely with support team daily reports
• Go over crash report
• Make sure to have quick response in case of
  urgent bugs.
• Use the time to organize all captured knowledge
  in a specific library for future user.
• RnD\QA should not begin working on new project
  before stability period is officially over.

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Lessons learned

• Good judgment comes from experience
• Experience comes from bad judgment
• This is one of the most important aspects of
  project closure.
• Purpose of this meeting is to meet with all
  participants of the project and make discuss the
  project procedures, problems and difficulties we
  encountered and mainly how we can learn from
  those items and improve them for the next project

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Lessons learned

• Sample questions
• What happened on the project that surprised you?
• What do you know now about the project that you
  wish you had known earlier? How would this have
  changed the project?
• What skills or knowledge turned out to be the
  most important?
• How effectively did the team capture and
  communicate the voice of the customer?
• How effective were the projects quality control
  and assurance activities?
• What is your level of comfort with regard to the
  products quality?
• To what extent was the project life cycle that
  was used an effective means of driving the
  project and generating its deliverables?

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Final project report

• The final report should be deliverd to the
  management by the PM.
• It should contain
• Actual start and finish dates of the project
• comparison of the Project Execution Plan against
  what actually happened
• methodology that was adopted, the phases used and
  how effective they were
• quality measures and reviews that were planned
  and a summary of the quality results
• Lessons learned summary
• Stability period results

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And yet dont forget the important final task

• Lets party

Sorry, wrong party.
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Thank you