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End of Project - Transition
Lingos 4 week PMDPro course

• Transition Planning
• Project Closure

Like organic entities, projects have life
cycles. From a slow beginning they progress to a
peak, begin a decline, and finally must be
terminated. (Also, like other organic entities,
they often resist termination.) - Meredith and
Mantel
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THE END OF PROJECT - TRANSITION PHASE
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come
to the end then stop Alice in Wonderland
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WHY TRANSITION?

• Why do we call it the transition phase?

A project is complete when it starts working for
you, rather than you working for it. - Scott
Allen
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4 WAYS TO END YOUR PROJECT
The end of a melody is not its goal but
nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end
it would not have reached its goal either. A
parable.  ? Friedrich Nietzsche
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NO COST EXTENSION

• Does the no-cost extension exist?

It's never over till it's over
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WHAT DO WE HAVE TO DO TO TRANSITION A PROJECT?

• List the activities you need to do to
  close/transition a project

You never know what is enough, until you know
what is more than enough.  William
Blake, Proverbs of Hell
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WHAT DO WE HAVE TO DO TO TRANSITION A PROJECT?
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WHAT CAN GO WRONG?

• What can go wrong as you finish your projects?

In poorly run projects, problems can go
undetected until the project fails. Its like the
drip drip drip of an leaky underground pipe.
Money is being lost, but you dont see it until
there is an explosion.  Joy Gumz
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WHAT TOOLS CAN HELP? HOW?
Issue log
raci
WBS
Risk register
DECISION GATES
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the
answers are simple.  Dr Seuss
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LEARNING

• How good is your end of project learning?

Awful we never do it
Good we actively undertake project reviews but
these dont always inform other projects
OK just we sometimes do it but nothing
systematic
Brilliant - lessons learned are identified and
documented and fed into new project design
In NASA, we never punish error. We only punish
the concealment of error.  Al Siepert
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PROJECT LEARNING

• How do you approach end of project learning? What
  do you do? What difficulties have you
  experienced?

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the
answers are simple.  Dr Seuss
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AFTER ACTION REVIEW
Agreed Facts
Shared Opinions
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ASSIGNMENT
Great ability develops and reveals itself
increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracián  - 17th Century Spanish philosopher
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Questions?
What we learn from lessons learned is that we
dont learn from lessons learned.  T. Block
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See you next time?