The closing phase project management templates will help the project manager to finalize all of the activities across all of the other process groups, as well as to formally close the project or phase. The following templates are included. Click on a template for more information about that template.

Contract Closeout Checklist
Final Report
Lessons Learned
Post-Contract Summary
Project Archive Checklist

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The Contract Closeout Checklist project management template will help the project manager to capture the following:

• Status of contracted activities (e.g. open, closed, or n/a);
• Anticipated date of completion for those activities that have not been completed; and
• Final completion date.

At the end of the project, a Final Report project management template should be utilized to capture the following high level information:

• Project recaps;
• Key lessons learned; and
• Project acknowledgements.

Upon the acceptance of the project or product results, the Final Report will be signed off by the Project Sponsor, Program Manager, and Project Manager.

At the end of every project, the team should meet with the key customers and stakeholders to assess what went well and what could have been done better from both a project and project manager perspective. This information should be documented in the Lessons Learned project management template.

This project management template should be circulated or posted to locations such as the project management office repository, wiki, display board, etc., so that others also have an opportunity to learn from this experience.

The Post-Contract Summary project management template compares the schedule and cost performance baselines for the purpose of identifying the overall satisfaction of the vendor's performance.

The Project Archive Checklist project management template identifies the items to be captured in the project repository. In addition, this should also be captured in the overall project archive folder at the project management office (this could be as small as one person and as large as an international corporation).