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.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Participants will gain practical skills to:

• Use a structured approach to get final sign-off and closing out a project
• Describe the barriers to project closeout including both scope and lifecycle barriers
• Describe how to overcome closeout activities including financial, administrative, and legal closure (and more!)
• Use lessons learned to drive continuous improvement

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course is intended for beginner and intermediate project managers across all industries.

LOGISTICS

This course will be delivered over two half-day sessions on March 11-12, 2026 from 8:30am to Noon Eastern (Toronto/New York) time.