A Standard for Enterprise Project Management

Chapter 5

Project Closure

One of the primary reasons for formally ending a project, rather than simply allowing it to disappear from the list of active initiatives, is to help propagate success while hopefully forestalling repeated failure. For this purpose, a formal debriefing session should be included as a milestone at the end of the project plan, and participation should include the entire project team and stakeholders. Figure 5.1 shows an outline for a post-project summary of lessons learned. A template can be found in Appendix 26.

Figure 5.1