Chapter 12. Completing the Project

Chapter Objectives Completing the Project The Project Postmortem Assessing the Project Deliverables Documenting the Project Evaluating the Team’s Performance Obtaining Final Sign-Off Declaring Victory or Failure From the Field: Interview with Greg Kirkland Q&A Chapter Quiz Chapter Exercises

Congratulations! You’ve made it to the end of your project. The critical path is nearly completed, your team is happy, but exhausted, and management is all smiles. You’ve been sampling the project as you move along through production for quality and scope verification, and you can reminisce about events that tried to shove your project off schedule and how you and the team recovered and pushed it back on track.