The Project Workout

11 The release stage

Let’s get going!

1. Overview
2. Key deliverable
3. Process steps

This is the stage when the “rubber hits the road”.

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning”

T S ELIOT

Overview

This is the stage when “the rubber hits the road”, you unleash your creation on the world and start to reap the benefits your project was set up to realize. It involves:

• releasing the validated solution into its operational environment;
• the start of all operational support;
• making sure the new “rubber sticks” and people really absorb the changes and do not just revert to the “old way” of doing things;
• the handover of the solution from the project manager to the functions and business units for ongoing operation ...