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- Project Phase.


Project phase is a collection of related activities that will produce a meaningful deliverable once the activities in that phase is completed.
Phase of a project lifecycle can be described by a variety attributes, these can be name, number, duration, resources requirements, etc.

When dividing a project to phases generally work done in the phase gives the name of the phase.

For example, development a software project, in the software development project typical phases of a project lifecycle will be analysis, technical design, software development, testing, deployment, and after-live support, respectively.

During analysis project requirements are detailed, analysis documents are prepared, and project team develops the software accordingly. Then technical design phase starts.

During this phase, software engineers work on technical solutions about how they can ensure the project requirements as be the analysis documents. 

After the technical, software development phase starts. Software engineers develop the services, technical aspects, and technical solutions as in a technical design. Once the development finishes, test engineer will test the functionality and features of the software. If there are any bugs or missing requirements, these arise during testing phase and project team fixed the issue.

Once the testing pass successfully, software will be ready for deployment. Software is deployed and customer start use the end product. When the product is live after the deployment unexpected issues might be arise. After live support for this case, project team works arising issues to solve the issue immediately.

Note that. These phases for software development project, each industry, even each organization can have they tailored phases for projects.

- Phase Gates.

Phase gates refer to the end of a phase and start the new phase in the project.

Phase gates will be held at the end of a phase. During phase gates project performances and progress are compared against the project baseline.

Project business case, project charter, project management plan, and benefit management plan are re-visited to check whether the end of phase results meet these documents. If there are any conflict or missing aspects, these must be corrected otherwise, phase cannot be completed.

Generally, corporate companies define different phases for different type of projects.

For example, phases for marketing projects, phases for technical projects, etc. and governance’s role and organization not in the same hierarchy with the project manager inspect the phase success in the end of each phase.

For example, once the project manager report the analysis phase completed, the team or the person responsible to check and assess whether the requirements is finalized, and analysis phase is completed. 

Usually, this is done over check list. It cover actions like whether the analysis documents is complete, whether the analysis documents is approved by customer, whether the sponsor is reviewed the analysis documents, etc.

If the phase control pass successfully, next phase in the project lifecycle starts.











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