Exam 14: Project Closeout and Termination

Closeout activities are typically among the highest priority activities in a project.

The departmental patriarch spent his last years at the university developing and promoting a Student Portfolio Project that required all departmental faculty to create integrated course projects and maintain a database of their students' work. New graduates could refer their prospective employers to the Student Portfolio Project database to mine examples of their work. The patriarch retired, funding and effort dried up, and the project lingered in a few syllabi and on the department's web site for a year or two but now any mention of it elicits either puzzled looks or wry grins from the remaining faculty. The patriarch's Student Portfolio Project has officially been terminated by:

The key to begin harvesting the benefits of a project is to first develop an effective:

In order to facilitate acceptance for the project, the project team should start planning for the project's transfer and use during:

A final report section on the techniques of project management would include an honest assessment of whether the:

A lessons-learned analysis falls under the project closeout management element of:

Loss of team identity is:

Researchers have determined that one significant early warning sign of project failure is:

Of the project closeout management steps listed, the first is to:

Once the project was successfully concluded, the team members returned to their roles in the organization, occasionally congregating at the water cooler to relive their halcyon days of yore. No one could argue that their project was:

An example of an external intellectual issue is:

The disadvantage of a BOOT contract to the project organization is that they must take on:

The project review session was one epiphany after another for the project organization. A number of systematic errors were properly identified and the root causes of a number of problems were identified. Sadly, the review session was not leveraged to its fullest extent thanks to:

Which two types of project termination are reserved for successful projects?

When a project is shut down, the project team must ensure that all relevant stakeholders are clearly aware of the project shut down, including the date by which all activities will cease. This is an:

The actual carryover from one project to another is minimal because projects are unique, one-time events.

The primary goal in requiring a project final report is to:

What three guidelines are offered to derive maximum benefit from a lessons-learned meeting? Provide counter examples for each one of these behaviors.

In the United States, a Private Finance Initiative is used to protect the excessive financial exposure of a contracting agency to a project being developed.

What is the difference between natural termination and unnatural termination of a project? Provide an example of each.