Top 7 Post-Implementation Review Methods

What are your plans once the project is completed? Isn’t it time to celebrate a little and move on to the next one? That isn’t a good idea. Although the project is finished, the process continues.

That is, if you supplied a product or a service, the project may be over, but you must still verify the product’s or service’s viability. You may have met the project’s objectives, but what about the business needs that product or service was designed to address?

Consider it a continuous phase in the project conclusion process. It’s a post-project or post-implementation review, and it’s a part of your project management duties. It’s also an excellent tool to track project milestones, deliverables, and accomplishments, as well as learn from the portions of the project that didn’t go as planned.

How do you put a post-implementation review into practice? How can you be certain that the project solved the issues it was designed to solve? Are there any further advantages to the project that can be uncovered? What are the key takeaways?

Post-Implementation Review Methods

There are a variety of methods for gathering the data you need to figure out what succeeded and what didn’t in your project. Here are a few illustrations.

1. Gap Analysis. Gap analysis is a method of determining how a plan differed from the actual application, and it’s always a useful tool for determining which benchmarks were fulfilled and which were not. You might start by looking at your project charter to determine how well you followed your goals. Take a look at your outputs. Are they up to your expectations in terms of quality? Determine how holes can be plugged once they’ve been detected.
2. Project Goals. Simply put, did you meet your project’s objectives? Are your deliverables performing as expected? What was the project’s mistake rate? Will the deliverables be able to adapt to market changes? End-users: how well-trained and supported are they? Are there any controls or mechanisms in place, and do they work? Are there any issues that are being addressed? Is your planned aim in line with your actual outcome?
3. Stakeholders. What fraction of your stakeholders are satisfied? Were the needs of the users met? What was the impact of the project on them? Why is there unhappiness, and what can you do to address it?
4. Cost. What was the final cost of the project? What are the costs of implementing the project’s outcome? Are the project’s costs in line with the project’s benefits? If this isn’t the case, what can you do to reduce the price next time?
5. Benefits. Was the project able to deliver the expected benefits, and if not, why not, and how can this be improved? What are the possibilities for advancing the results? Is there anything further you could do to improve the project’s outcomes?
6. Lessons. If not, why did the project’s deliverables, timeline, and budget fail to meet expectations? What were some of the problems that developed during the project’s execution, and how may they be avoided in the future? What went well, and what can you take away from this?
7. Report. If not, what went wrong with the project’s deliverables, timeframe, and budget? What were some of the issues that arose during the project’s execution, and what can be done to avoid them in the future? What went well, and what lessons can you learn from it?

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