120 Fundamentals of Project Management be considered valid. The primary tool for project evaluation is the project process review, which is usually conducted at major mile- stones throughout the life of the project. Purposes of Project Evaluation Sports teams that practice without reviewing performance may get really good at playing very badly. That is why they review game films--to see where they need to improve. In other words, the purpose of a review is to learn lessons that can help the team to avoid doing things that cause undesired outcomes and to con- tinue doing those that help. The review should be called a lessons-learned or process review. I have deliberately avoided the word audit, because nobody likes to be audited. Historically, an audit has been designed to catch people doing things they shouldn't have done so that they can be penalized in some way. If you go around auditing people, you can be sure they will hide from you anything they don't want