As a project manager, what should the FINAL task be at of the end of each project?

Question

Options

• AA costing and billing review
• BDelivery of the final documentation
• CA lessons learned meeting
• DA sign off meeting with the owner

• A
  9% (2)
• B
  5% (1)
• C
  82% (18)
• D
  5% (1)

Explanation

A lessons learned meeting (C) is the final task because it captures what went right, what went wrong, and how future projects can improve - this institutional knowledge is the lasting deliverable that benefits the entire organization beyond the current project.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (Costing/billing review): Financial reconciliation happens during project closeout, not as the final step - it informs the lessons learned, not the other way around.
• B (Final documentation delivery): Documentation is completed before closeout activities; it's an input to the closing phase, not the capstone.
• D (Sign-off meeting with owner): Owner sign-off marks formal acceptance of deliverables, which occurs before the project is truly closed out - lessons learned come after.

Memory tip: Think of the lessons learned meeting as the project's "autopsy" - you can only perform it after everything else (delivery, billing, sign-off) is done, making it naturally last. The acronym LAST can help: Lessons learned = After Sign-off and Transition.

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