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Project Management Ch08

This document discusses evaluating and terminating projects. It covers evaluating projects based on criteria like original goals, success to date, and contributions. Metrics like budgets, schedules and earned value analysis are used. Projects are audited, and audit reports outline status, issues, risks and recommendations. Projects may be terminated based on costs, goals, and factors of success or failure. Termination types include extinction, integration, starvation. The termination process involves a committee and plan. A final report discusses performance, administration, structure, management techniques.

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Project Management Ch08

This document discusses evaluating and terminating projects. It covers evaluating projects based on criteria like original goals, success to date, and contributions. Metrics like budgets, schedules and earned value analysis are used. Projects are audited, and audit reports outline status, issues, risks and recommendations. Projects may be terminated based on costs, goals, and factors of success or failure. Termination types include extinction, integration, starvation. The termination process involves a committee and plan. A final report discusses performance, administration, structure, management techniques.

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Chapter 8

Evaluating and Terminating the


Project

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EVALUATION

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Background
• A project evaluation appraises the
progress and performance relative to the
project’s initial or revised plan.
• Also appraises project against goals and
objectives set for it during selection
process.
• Projects should be evaluated at a number
of crucial points.
• Purpose is to improve process of carrying
out project.
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Evaluation Criteria
• Original criteria for selecting and funding
project
• Success to date
• Business/Direct Success
• Future Potential
• Contribution to Organization’s Goals
• Contribution to Team Member Objectives

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Measurement
• Measuring performance against planned
budgets and schedules straightforward
• Earned value analysis more complicated

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PROJECT AUDITING

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The Audit Process
• Timing depends on purpose
• Three Levels
– general audit
– detailed audit
– technical audit

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Steps in Project Audit
• Familiarize audit team with requirements of
project
• Audit project on-site
• Write up audit report
• Distribute report

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Behavior Aspects
• Audit team must have free access to
anyone with knowledge of the project
• Project team members rarely trust
auditors
• Audit team must understand politics of
project team
• Information must be confirmed
• Project team should be made award of
in-process audit
• No judgmental comments MEM 612 Project Management
The Audit Report
• Introduction
– description of project and its goals
• Current Status
– comparison of work completed and planned
• Future Project Status
– conclusions regarding project progress
– recommendations for changes

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The Audit Report continued
• Critical Management Issues
– issues senior management should monitor
• Risk Analysis and Risk Management
– potential for project failure and monetary loss
• Final Comments
– caveats, assumptions, limitations

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PROEJCT TERMINATION

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When to Terminate a Project
• Sunk Cost Approach
– whether organization is willing to invest the
time and cost required to complete the project
• Two Other Criteria
– the degree to which the project has met its
goals
– the degree to which the project qualifies
against a set of factors associated with
success or failure
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Types of Project Termination
• Project Extinction
– project activity suddenly stops
– either successfully completed or high
expectation for failure
• Termination-By-Addition
– becomes a new formal part of organization
• Termination-By-Integration
– becomes standard part of operating
systems
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Types of Project Termination
continued
• Termination-By-Starvation
– a project in name only

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The Termination Process
• Decision made by broad based committee
of senior managers
• Termination process should be specified in
project plan
• Termination manager

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Figure 8-3 A Termination Project

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The Project Final Report
• Project Performance
– what was achieved and reasons for resulting
performance
• Administrative Performance
– review of how well administrative practices
worked
• Organizational Structure
– identify modifications to help future projects

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The Project Final Report continued
• Project Management Techniques
– recommendations for improvements in future
projects

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