Project Closeout Best Practices

As project managers, we tend to keep our eyes focused on the finish line. For us, it is all about on-time completion. Once the deliverables have been handed over to our project sponsor or client, we relax -- the project is over. But is it really?

Project closeout always presents challenges: from getting final approvals, to performing administrative and contract closure, to capturing lessons learned, and more. At the rapid pace of business today, efficient project closure is a must and may even give you a competitive edge. This 1-day workshop introduces project managers to the best practices for getting final signoffs and closing out projects. Project managers will come away with a structured closeout framework and some templates that can be used to complete an orderly project closeout.

This course is also sometimes called "Getting to Done: Project Closeout Best Practices".

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will gain practical skills to:

• Use a structured approach to get final sign-off and closong out a project
• Describe the barriers to project closeout including both scope and lifecycle barriers
• Describe how to overcome closeout activities including financial, administrative, and legal closure (and more!)
• Use lessons learned to drive continuous improvement

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course is intended for beginner and intermediate project managers across all industries.

PREREQUISITE

There is no prerequisite for this course.

MATERIALS

Participants will receive a course workbook with copies of all presentation slides, case study materials, forms, and a closeout checklist.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN