238 Effective Project Management Explain to the project steering group what closure means for you, the project manager: ­ work identified on the project plan is complete, so the plan is no longer necessary. It will be brought up-to-date and filed; ­ post-project actions will be handed over to the post-project governance team, whoever they may be; ­ project cost codes will have been prepared for closure, ensuring that only committed and authorized un-invoiced spend is charged to them; ­ project team members will be told of the closure and their line managers instructed to seek new engagements for them; ­ you will, if desired, offer feedback to each team member for use during their regular performance appraisals; ­ sufficient budget will have been set aside to fund a `lessons learned' review, which will be scheduled for as many project participants as possible, including the project steering group.