项目收尾 - IP (智力成果)

项目管理收尾阶段有一个步骤是收集经验教训、智力成果。前几天在对一个Silverlight项目做Review时，我提到使用了MVVM和Prism，老板马上问这些是否总结成了Rules to better Silverlight？后来又强调IP(Intellectual Property) 的重要性。正如他说的，下一个Silverlight如果让别人来做，那么这些IP就会对他或她有一些帮助，尤其是避免再犯同样的错误。

Project Close-out is important because project documents are gathered and archived to ensure the intellectual property of projects are available to other Project Managers and senior management. Without closing a project properly, team members risk making the same mistakes over and over again, and organizations fail to learn from their mistakes and inefficiencies. Closing-out a project properly and implementing "lessons learned" is a more cost-effective way of doing business than repeating the same mistakes over and over again and expecting different results.

项目参与者很容易就忘记或不愿做这个收尾(惰性或其他因素）。建立一个有组织的收尾过程才是有效的（例如，高层的直接参与或跟踪)：

to establish an organized approach to closing-out your projects, stick with your process, evaluate it periodically, and remember the following words of wisdom.

Project Management Aphorisms

• Information is the primary source of nourishment; it is vital to survival. When information is not available, people make it up.
• Be impeccable with your word.
• Ask for what you need, when you need it, and how and when you want people to respond.
• Trust that circulating information is more productive than protecting it.
• Never let things that matter most be sacrificed by the things which matter least .

http://www.cpmresources.com/article_closeout_eval.html