Course Details

T0029
Technical

 

Project Closure Management

All

Key topics covered:

• This course will introduce how a project should be closed. It will include an overview of:
  
• How to identify when a project needs to be terminated and how to manage it;
  
• What happens when projects are not closed;
  
• Administrative closure activities - Contractual requirements during closure, including: guarantees, warranties and letters of final acceptance.
  
• Project closure in common resources and delivery approaches, including: PMBoK, PRINCE2; and Praxis;
  
• Setting up for streamlined closure project closure across the project life-cycle;
• Closing the contract and sub-contacts for owner and contractor 
  
• How to resolve disputes, change orders, claims and back-charges
  
• How to finalise and archive project documentation
  
• How to learn lessons captured throughout a project by building them back in to systems and processes.
  
• Post-implementation reviews (post-mortems) - How to evaluate project performance, benchmarking against similar projects, and make data available to others
  
• How to transition to benefits realisation
• Further opportunities for developing as a project professional.

Learning Outcome:

Participants will gain an understanding of how and when a project should closed, and what actions should be undertaken on closure.