Project Management For Dummies

Closing the Project: This stage involves assessing the project results, obtaining customer approvals, assigning project team members to new work, closing financial accounts and conducting a post-project evaluation. Outputs from this stage may include final, accepted and approved project results and recommendations and suggestions for applying lessons learned from this project to similar efforts in the future.

Carrying Out the Work: This stage involves performing the planned work, monitoring and controlling performance to ensure adherence to the current plan, and doing the more detailed planning of successive phases as the project continues. Outputs from this stage may include

project progress reports, financial reports and further detailed plans.

affected by the project.

Organising and Preparing: This stage involves developing a plan that specifies the desired results: the work to do; the time, the cost and other resources required; and a plan for how to address key project risks.

and an initial list of people who may be interested in

documentation of the need for the project

rough estimates of time and resources to perform it