项目管理收尾阶段有一个步骤是收集经验教训、智力成果。前几天在对一个Silverlight项目做Review时,我提到使用了MVVM和Prism,老板马上问这些是否总结成了Rules to better Silverlight?后来又强调IP(Intellectual Property) 的重要性。正如他说的,下一个Silverlight如果让别人来做,那么这些IP就会对他或她有一些帮助,尤其是避免再犯同样的错误。
Project Close-out is important because project documents are gathered and archived to ensure the intellectual property of projects are available to other Project Managers and senior management. Without closing a project properly, team members risk making the same mistakes over and over again, and organizations fail to learn from their mistakes and inefficiencies. Closing-out a project properly and implementing "lessons learned" is a more cost-effective way of doing business than repeating the same mistakes over and over again and expecting different results.
项目参与者很容易就忘记或不愿做这个收尾(惰性或其他因素)。建立一个有组织的收尾过程才是有效的(例如,高层的直接参与或跟踪):
to establish an organized approach to closing-out your projects, stick with your process, evaluate it periodically, and remember the following words of wisdom.
Project Management Aphorisms
- Information is the primary source of nourishment; it is vital to survival. When information is not available, people make it up.
- Be impeccable with your word.
- Ask for what you need, when you need it, and how and when you want people to respond.
- Trust that circulating information is more productive than protecting it.
- Never let things that matter most be sacrificed by the things which matter least .