2. Questions:
1. List and briefly describe the ways projects may be
terminated
A project can be terminated in one of four ways:
Extinction
Addition
Integration
Starvation.
3. Termination by Extinction
The end of all activity on a project without extending it
in some form, such as by inclusion or integration.
Project has successfully completed, or it has failed
Natural passing, or “termination by murder”
Either way, project substance ceases, but much work needs to
be done
Administrative
Organizational
4. Termination by Addition
The project is a major success. It becomes the formal
part of the parent organization.
Transfer of the resources to the newly born division.
5. Termination by Integration
The property, equipment, material, personnel, and
functions of the project are distributed among the
existing elements of the parent organization.
6. Termination by Starvation
Cutting a project’s budget sufficiently to stop progress
without actually killing the project
(budget decrement)
Resources are taken away
Organization don’t want to invest any more in the
current project
7. 2. What problems may occur if the PM does not have a follow-on project
when the current near termination?
8. 3.What are the primary duties of a termination manager?
ensure completion of the work
ensure that delivery is accomplished
ensure that documentation is complete-Final Report
billing + sending invoices to the customer
redistribute resources to the appropriate places
clear project with legal counsel or consultant
records
9. 4. On termination of a project, what happens to the information gathered
throughout the course of the project?
It is taken into account to improve future projects
10. 5. What is a budget decrement?
A reduction in the amount of funds for an activity.
11. 6. Identify the four reasons for project termination fail
A Project Organization Is Not Required
Insufficient Support from Senior Management
Naming the Wrong Person as Project Manager
Poor Planning
12. 7. What does the Project Final Report include?
Project performance comments
-what was achieved; successes, challenges, failures
Administrative performance comments
-reports, meetings, project review procedures; HR, financial
processes
Organizational structure comments
-how structure evolved, how it aided/impeded progress
Personnel suggestions, possibly a confidential section
13. 8. What factors are considered most important in the decision to
terminate a project?
14. 9. What issues should be considered when using the termination-by-
integration method?
Method in itself has minor problems behind it.
However,…