PMO Project Lifecycle

A lifecycle allows the project to be considered as a sequence of phases which provides the structure and approach for progressively delivering the required outputs.

Benefits:

•  Ensures next phase of work is understood
  
• Better estimating (shorter durations)
• Limits risk
• Go/No go decisions
• Flexibility 
• Early phase success reinforces stakeholder commitment
• Lessons learnt can be applied to future phases

Edinburgh Napier's project lifecycle is broken down into 3 main phases and below describes the steps required to successfully run a project from initiation to close. Please note that these steps should be reviewed and tailored as required to meet each project demands.

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