Chapter 12

Closing the Project and Applying Professional Responsibility

The PMP® exam content from the Closing the Project performance domain covered in this chapter includes the following:

• Task 1: Obtain final acceptance of the project deliverables by working with the sponsor and/or customer in order to confirm that project scope and deliverables were met.
• Task 2: Transfer the ownership of deliverables of the assigned stakeholders in accordance with the project plan in order to facilitate project closure.
• Task 3: Obtain financial, legal, and administrative closure using generally accepted practices in order to communicate formal project closure and ensure no further liability.
• Task 4: Distribute the final project report including all project closure–related information, project variances, and any issues in order to provide the final project status to all stakeholders.