MGMT 4700 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Closure Phase, Project Manager, Organizational Culture

• School: York University
• Department: Management
• Course: MGMT 4700
• Professor: Yuval Meron

Document Summary

In past, project manager was responsible for seeing closure. Today, responsibility among project manager, teams, office, review committee and independent facilitator. Evaluation of performance and management of project: includes team, individual team members, and project manager performance, vendors and customer may provide external output. Retrospectives: designed to improve performance of current and future projects, usually responsibility of independent facilitator, provides major input to closure report about lessons learned, should be held with team to catch any missing issues or gaps. Normal: most common: completed project, for development project: end involves handing off final design to production. Premature: project completed early with some parts of project eliminated, pressure to finish project and send to production, implications and risks should be reviewed, benefits are often illusionary, dangerous, and carry large risks. Perpetual: some projects never seem to end, major characteristic: constant add-ons, review group should recommend methods for brining final closure to project.