Project Management Phases
Common Terms
Executing & Monitoring
Close Out
Tools
100

The goal of this phase is to ensure the project is completed on time, within budget and to the required standards.

What is the Monitor and Control Phase?

100

These are uncontrolled changes in project scope.

What is the Scope Creep?

100

This document records issues that arise during project execution and tracks their resolution.

What is the Issue Log?

100

This document confirms that ll project deliverable have been completed to the satisfaction of the stakeholders and formally ends the project.

What is the project closure report?

100

This tool is used to outline the sequence of project activities, their duration, and dependencies, creating a visual timeline for the project.

What is a Gantt Chart?

200

This phase is the foundation of the project.

What is the Initiating Phase?

200

This process involves continuously tracking, reviewing, and regulating the progress of the project to ensure objectives are being met.

What is Monitor and Control Project Work?

200

This final meeting is held with the project team and stakeholders to review the project's successes, challenges, and lessons learned.

What is the Project Retrospective or Post-Mortem?

300

In this phase, you would create a timeline and assign tasks.

What is the Planning Phase?

300

This document outlines how project resources, including personnel and equipment, will be allocated and managed to ensure project objectives are met.

What is the Resource Management Plan?

300

This technique involves regularly checking project deliverables against the acceptance criteria to ensure quality standard are being met.

What is Quality Control?

300

This document contains a comprehensive summary of the project's performance, including costs, schedule, and lessons learned, and is used for future project planning.

What is the Final Project report?

400

This phase ensures all aspects of the project are completed.

What is the Close-out Phase?

400

This process involves identifying potential risks, analyzing their impact, and developing strategies to mitigate them throughout the project's lifecycle.

What is Risk Management Planning?

400

This process involves identify, evaluating, and implementing changes to the project plan while ensuring all changes are documented and approved.

What is perform integrated change control.

400

This is the process of obtaining formal acceptance from the client that the project has met its objectives and deliverables.

What is formal project acceptance or sign off?

500
The focus in this phase is putting the plan into action.

What is the Execution Phase?

500

This plan defines how the project's quality will be ensured, including quality standards, procedures, and responsibilities.

What is the Quality Management Plan?

500

This is the process of ensuring that project communication is effective and that stakeholders are kept informed of progress and issues.

What is manage communications.