Project Closeout and "Lessons Learned" Bundle

Individual Purchase

$39.95

Multi-User License

$399.95

Immediate Download

• Release the Project Deliverables
  • Guidelines - Completion Criteria
    Set sound criteria and explicit goals for your deliverables, or your entire project, that define "done" -- without the usual ambiguity and the squabbles that result.
  • Project Deliverables Release Form
    Form to release your deliverables to a wider audience. It communicates that a deliverable has reached a specific state of completion, and thus can be safely deployed to specified groups of customers or users.

Deploy To Customers
• Customer Acceptance Checklist
  A checklist format for your customer to use while walking through review and test of a pre-release system (for example, before going through with a purchase). Allows the customer to record issues, indicate which must be resolved before acceptance, and ultimately sign off on accepting the new system.


• Capture Project "Lessons Learned"
  • Lessons Learned Survey
    A survey that can be sent to team members during or after a project, to solicit their feedback on how the project was conducted.
  • Lessons Learned Meeting Agenda
    A sample agenda for a lessons learned meeting, to capture what did or didn't go well on a project, how to replicate success, and what to do differently in the future.
  • Lessons Learned Meeting Report
    Process for holding a meeting aimed at capturing project wins, challenges, and resulting lessons learned, and producing a report at the end. A great way to promote continuous improvement across all your projects.


• Closing Out a Project
  • End of Delivery Phase Checklist
    A checklist of activities and deliverables that should be completed by the end of the Delivery Phase to ensure that the project is truly ready for official ramp down and completion.
  • Project Closeout Meeting Agenda
    This template provides an agenda for a Close Out Workshop, an occasion where the Program Team and others can document what worked, areas for improvement, lessons learned, and next steps, if any.
  • Maintenance Planning Guidelines and Plan Outline
    Guidelines for planning ahead for what comes after the project is officially done and its deliverables are in the hands of the customer.


• Celebrate and Reward team members
  • Project Team Rewards and Recognition Guideline
    Project work is serious, but it shouldn't be drudgery. Remember to include team rewards, recognition, celebration, and general hoopla in your project planning. This guideline provides ideas, suggestions, and a detailed example from one team's reward-planning activities.
  • Project Manager and Team Member Performance Appraisals
    Process and forms for promoting recognition of project performance as part of someone's normal yearly performance appraisal. This template addresses both individual team members and project leaders.


• Cancelling a Project
  • Project Cancellation Guidelines
    A comprehensive guideline for determining whether a project should be cancelled and -- once such a decision is made -- for smoothly ramping down and closing out, while taking into account the possibly wide-ranging implications for your company and customers.

We know that not everyone is ready to start out with a subscription, so this bundle provides a convenient, one-time-purchase. You get model reports and agendas, forms and checklists, and four detailed guidelines you can use to advance your team's efforts, all for a single low price, with no obligation.

Do you work with other teams that would like to have an productive project closeout? Better yet, do you want your whole organization to get more from the closeout process? Contact us for licensing terms.