Monitoring and controlling scope
To officially close your project, it is usually necessary to get the final, formal signatures. Having a structured process does a couple of things; it provides formal acceptance of the scope of work, and it provides the necessary documentation needed to begin project closure or phase procedures. Not every organization has a formal sign-off policy on the scope of work, but I find it is an important step. After all, you did all of the planning, execution, monitoring, and controlling, and you would like to feel validated for all that hard work, darn it.
There is a cadence to project management and this is the reason for everything else we do to plan, execute, monitor, and control effectively.
That process includes the following:
- Producing the deliverable during execution (see the Direct and manage project work section in Chapter 14, Integration Management).
- Verified quality via inspection (see the Control quality section in Chapter 9...
