Overview

The steps involved in identifying follow-on actions are:

• Evaluating Project Issues for follow-on actions
• Creating a Post Project Review Plan.

Project Issues that are pending (i.e. not dealt with by the Project Board) should be taken and sorted into two groups:

• Future actions for the team taking over the maintenance
• Those to be turned into Project Mandates for enhancement projects.

The Post Project Review should be planned to assess achievements of the benefits outlined in the Business Case. The plan should define:

• What benefits are to be measured and when
• How those benefits can be measured
• Who and what skills types are needed to carry out the benefit measurements.

Method links

Tips

• It is not a project activity to carry out the Post Project Review - only to plan it
• Confirm that a Post Project Review is, in fact, necessary
• Try to organise a date for the Post Project Review as soon after the project closes as possible.

Notes

• The Project Manager is responsible
• Document Follow-on Action Recommendations
• Recommend date for Post Project Review (evaluate the benefits as outlined in the Business Case)
• Produce plan for Post Project Review.

Case studies and examples

Related links

• Search our forum for 'CP2 Identifying Follow-on Actions'
• Take our CP - Closing a Project - Quiz
• Post Project Review.