Project Management

Chapter 13
Termination

Master student: Marius Miron

May 2014
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.
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
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.

Termination by Integration
The property, equipment, material, personnel, and
functions of the project are distributed among the
existing elements of the parent organization.
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
2. What problems may occur if the PM does not have a follow-on project
when the current near termination?
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
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

5. What is a budget decrement?

A reduction in the amount of funds for an activity.

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
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
8. What factors are considered most important in the decision to
terminate a project?
9. What issues should be considered when using the termination-by-
integration method?
Method in itself has minor problems behind it.

However,…
All thing come to an end…