Chapter 7. Explain Project Closing

This chapter covers the following PMP exam topics: Close Project or Phase—4.6 Close Procurements—12.4 (For more information on the official PMP exam topics, see “About the PMP Exam” in the introduction.)

The closing process group entails 9%, or 14 questions, of the PMP exam. Closing is where you formally end a project phase or the entire project, release all the resources that were assigned to the project, and build reference material for future projects. In addition, this is the process group where all plans are compared to actual performance data. The road to this point has been about keeping focus, control, and processes optimization. Project closing ensures that the other side of the bell curve of execution looks the same way as when you started the process. Simply put, this is where the project manager wraps up the project and ties up all the loose ends.