Project Closeout Best Practices [ONLINE]

As project managers, we tend to keep our eyes focused on the finish line. For us, it is all about on-time completion. Once the deliverables have been handed over to our project sponsor or client, we relax — the project is over. But is it really?Project closeout always presents challenges: from getting final approvals, to performing administrative and contract closure, to capturing lessons learned, and more. At the rapid pace of business today, efficient project closure is a must and may even give you a competitive edge. This 1-day workshop introduces project managers to the best practices for getting final signoffs and closing out projects. Project managers will come away with a structured closeout framework and some templates that can be used to complete an orderly project closeout. 7 PDUs.

This course is an elective that can be used towards obtaining a Goodman School of Mines Project Management Certificate. https://goodmanschoolofmines.laurentian.ca/projectmanagement/

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:To provide project managers with an advanced understanding of the activities required to close out a project properly, including financial, administrative, and legal closure. Participants also will learn a structured approach to performing an orderly closeout.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?This course is intended for beginner and intermediate project managers across all industries.

INSTRUCTOR

Inez Halaska, BFA, CMP

Inez Halaska has two decades of project management experience across a broad range of projects types including construction (both as an owner’s rep and as a vendor), information technology implementations, business re-organizations, and event planning. Her expertise covers all aspects of delivering successful projects from up front strategic planning, needs analysis and project definition, through project planning, delivery, and commissioning, to change management and benefits realization. She is currently a practising project manager running projects for a government regulator in the energy industry but her work experience spans government, private, and non-profit sectors.

Inez worked as a client representative in the construction of the Creative Kids Museum in the TELUS Word of Science facility in downtown Calgary. There she handled coordination with various business units, actively participated in weekly construction team meetings, provided business direction, and participated in quality assurance activities and deliverables acceptance. She also participated in the high-level planning for the relocation of the TELUS World of Science facility including parking studies, defining requirements, and a research study analyzing other science centre renovation/expansion projects from across North America.

LOGISTICS

Course will be delivered via two half-day online sessions from 8:30 am to Noon. Login details for the online sessions will be provided closer to the date of the event.

Host or Publisher Goodman School of Mines