Just like during the governance gates a signature is necessary to move on, the same applies to the scope of work. In fact, to close out your project, it is usually necessary to get the final signatures. This 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 procedures. Not every organization has formal sign-offs on the scope of work, but I find it is an important step. After all, you did all the planning and execution and monitoring and controlling, and you would like to feel validated for all that hard work, darn it.
There is a cadence to project management. This is the reason for everything else we do to plan and execute and monitor and control effectively.
That process includes the following:
- Producing the deliverable during execution
- Verifying quality via...