Project Management, Part 8 of 8: Project Processes and Closing

Course description

As your project work continues, you’ve monitored the schedule and budget baselines. Other important aspects of projects that need to be tracked and controlled are project performance, quality, communications, risks, procurements, and stakeholders. In this course, you’ll continue tracking project performance and control project quality. You will also continue to monitor and control the project, focusing on project risk, procurements, and stakeholders. Now that the project is completed, you are ready to officially close a project. Closing a project out is as important as initiating a project. The lessons learned during the course of a project are analyzed and addressed in the closeout phase so that the same mistakes or known issues will not occur again.

Each LearnNowOnline training course is made up of Modules (typically an hour in length). Within each module there are Topics (typically 15-30 minutes each) and Subtopics (typically 2-5 minutes each). There is a Post Exam for each Module that must be passed with a score of 70% or higher to successfully and fully complete the course.

Prerequisites

This course is designed for users preparing for the project management certification. It is recommended before taking the certification that you also use the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) Guide, Fifth Edition to study with. You should have already viewed Project Management: Monitoring a Project.

Meet the expert

Sandy Haydon

Sandy Haydon is a certified project manager in software development and a project management instructor. She has 40 years of experience with IBM as a software developer, manager, and project manager responsible for leading teams located worldwide. Sandy holds a BA in Mathematics and an MA in Management and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and an IBM Senior Certified Project Manager.

Video Runtime

79 Minutes

Time to complete

99 Minutes

Course Outline

Project Processes and Closing

Control Quality Process (19:54)

• Introduction (00:24)
• The Control Quality Process (00:35)
• Control Quality Inputs (02:04)
• Tools and Techniques (00:52)
• Control Quality Outputs (02:04)
• Variance (02:39)
• Tolerances (00:51)
• The 6-Sigma Limit (00:37)
• Variability Indications (00:41)
• Pareto Diagram (01:52)
• Statistical Sampling (01:32)
• Attribute Sampling Data (00:40)
• Variable Sampling Data (00:40)
• Guidelines (02:11)
• Activty: Control Quality (01:54)
• Summary (00:11)

Control Communications Process (05:07)

• Introduction (00:26)
• Control Communications Process (00:25)
• Control Communications Inputs (01:09)
• Tools and Techniques (00:37)
• Control Communications Outputs (00:47)
• Guidelines (01:27)
• Summary (00:13)

Control Risks Process (12:40)

• Introduction (00:23)
• The Control Risks Process (00:50)
• Control Risks Inputs (00:54)
• Tools and Techniques (02:00)
• Project Risk Audit (00:51)
• Control Risks Outputs (02:18)
• Guidelines to Control Risk (03:17)
• Activity: Control Project Risk (01:54)
• Summary (00:09)

Control Procurements Process (19:16)

• Introduction (00:20)
• Control Procurements Process (00:47)
• Control Procurements Input (01:42)
• Tools and Techniques (02:34)
• Contract Change Control System (01:58)
• Control Procurements Outputs (02:37)
• Legal Issues (03:03)
• Breaches of Contract (01:17)
• Guidelines to Control (03:00)
• Activity-Project Procurements (01:39)
• Summary (00:14)

Control Stakeholder Engagement (03:52)

• Introduction (00:24)
• Control Stakeholder Engagement (00:23)
• Stakeholder Engagement Inputs (00:35)
• Tools and Techniques (00:26)
• Stakeholder Engagement Outputs (00:57)
• Guidelines (00:54)
• Summary (00:09)

Phase Process (11:34)

• Introduction (00:35)
• Project Phase Process (00:55)
• Close a Project Inputs (00:37)
• Tools and Techniques (00:41)
• Close a Project Outputs (00:33)
• Administrative Closure (00:32)
• Archiving (00:39)
• Lessons Learned Reports (00:34)
• Lessons Learned Considerations (02:03)
• Close-Out Meetings (00:33)
• Guidelines (01:48)
• Activity: Project Closure (01:46)
• Summary (00:13)

Close Procurement Process (06:55)

• Introduction (00:28)
• Close Procurements Process (00:32)
• Close Procurements Inputs (00:41)
• Tools and Techniques (00:50)
• Procurement Audits (00:18)
• Elements of Procurement Audits (01:03)
• Close Procurement Outputs (00:28)
• Closed Procurements (00:15)
• Guidelines (00:56)
• Activity: Close Procurements (01:04)
• Summary (00:15)