CMA Intermediate · Operations Management and Strategic Management · Project Management, Monitoring and Control
A construction firm in Pune has completed building a warehouse and is now handing it over to the client, obtaining acceptance, releasing staff and recording lessons learned. Which life cycle phase is this?
This is the closure phase. Handing over the deliverable, getting client acceptance, releasing resources and recording lessons learned are the final activities that formally end a project, unlike planning or execution, which occur earlier.
- APlanning
- BExecution
- CClosureCorrect
- DInitiation
Explanation
Handover, client acceptance, release of resources and documentation of lessons learned are the activities of the closure (termination) phase. Execution is the actual construction, and planning precedes it, so those options do not fit.
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