Closing Process Group Activities.
Closing process group
activities ensuring recording project documents, archiving in organization
process assets, making final payments, release resources and completing the
project. We will list the closing project group activities one by one.
- Confirm work is done as per requirements.
Once the project is
closing all deliverables of a project must be completed and delivered to the
customer. And formal acceptance of the customer for completing work is taken.
- Complete procurement closure.
Since project is
closing, any remain payments that need to make to the suppliers or partners are
completed. Procurements steps are completed, respectively.
- Gain formal acceptance.
Formal acceptance of a
project and project deliverables are taken from the customer. Usually, the
customer presents are written the document. It can be an email or sign off
document which status that project has been completed and the accept the
outputs of the project.
- Complete final performance reporting.
Final performance of a
project is calculating and reporting. These include cost performance, schedule
performance, quality performance, etc. for example, whether the project has
been completed under budget or if could not completed, how much that project
exceed the planned budget.
- Index archive records.
Collected documents
are finalized, final revision of project management plans and all necessary
documents about the project archived in company records.
- Update lessons learned.
Lessons learned are collected
and gather from all stakeholders. Lessons learned documentation is stored in
organization process assets in the company.
- Hand-off completed product.
Once the project is
completed, product of the project is handed over for the use of the end customer.
Handover may need predetermined period of assessments or some documents
describing how it will use or how it will operate with the product.
- Release resources.
After the project is
completed successfully, all assignment of the project resources are closed.
Lessons learned inputs from the project resources are collected and then these
resources are released, respectively.