http://www.pm4girls.elizabeth-harrin.com/2008/07/closing-down-projects/ Project Management musings for one and all Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:34:39 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.pm4girls.elizabeth-harrin.com/2008/07/closing-down-projects/comment-page-1/#comment-259001 Stopping doesn’t equal closing | Project Management Tips || Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Management Blog Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:51:28 +0000 http://www.pm4girls.elizabeth-harrin.com/?p=275#comment-259001 [...] Closing a project does mean closing it down.  The project may have been temporarily stopped – either like in the above situation or for any other reason such as a change in the economic situation.  In PRINCE2 terms, closing is a project is the equivalent of the Managing Stage Boundaries process, but in your final iteration of the Controlling a Stage process, instead of invoking Managing Stage Boundaries, you invoke Closing a Project.  It involves some of the same principles as Managing Stage Boundaries, but doesn’t include any of the work required to start up a new stage, as obviously by this point there isn’t any more work to do. [...] [...] Closing a project does mean closing it down.  The project may have been temporarily stopped – either like in the above situation or for any other reason such as a change in the economic situation.  In PRINCE2 terms, closing is a project is the equivalent of the Managing Stage Boundaries process, but in your final iteration of the Controlling a Stage process, instead of invoking Managing Stage Boundaries, you invoke Closing a Project.  It involves some of the same principles as Managing Stage Boundaries, but doesn’t include any of the work required to start up a new stage, as obviously by this point there isn’t any more work to do. [...]

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