Project closeout can drag your project down if not handled properly.
Q: Can you give me some ideas on how to speed up the closeout of a project?
A: Allow for it in your original schedule and make it a priority.
- Project closeout
- The finish of the work
- The completion of the punchlist and inspections
- Submission of final paperwork
- Make closeout a priority
- Put closeout in your baseline schedule
- Then create a separate schedule when you start closing out
- Give closeout as much effort as you do with the planning in the beginning
- Start at 50% planning your cloeout
- Get a focused team effort
- Put closeout in your baseline schedule
- Some things that will help
- Create a special schedule for the final bit of work and the closeout
- Perform pre-punch mock-ups
- Have the client review a finished product and give their feedback
- Start collecting the paperwork early