Projects are temporary activities with set lifetime from conception during planning to completion during closure. While the initial and conduction of main activities may seem the most significant stages of a project, steps taken during project closure are equally significant in the achievement of set objectives. According to Turner (2014), project closing phase ensures that there is an assurance on the completion of all work, execution of all the processes as outlined in project planning, and the provision of an official end of a project. The present paper analyses a project conducted on the digitization of library services at Purdue University in 2015 (Purdue, 2015). The project involved introduction of digital systems for the management of library activities including the library catalog.
According to the product details as obtained from Purdue Online, there were stages of the closing phase that were not implemented. There was lack of efficient strategies to introduce the systems to the entire student fraternity of Purdue University. While it may seem the university were the most significant for training on the application of the improved systems, understanding of the systems by student is equally imperative. This failure lead to lack of pride in the project from the students since they could not feel part of the project limiting the project’s ability to achieve the initially set objectives. The project was meant to produce a better interactive platform between the library staff and users. Additionally, the project aimed at simplifying library users’ efforts in their quest for library services. Without better understanding of the larger percentage of the users, students, the project failed in its achievement of the set objectives due to poor conduction of the closing phase.
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References
Purdue (2015). INSIDE: Purdue University Libraries . Retrieved 7 December 2018, from https://www.lib.purdue.edu/inside/2015/february4.pdf
Turner, J. R. (2014). Handbook of project-based management (Vol. 92). New York, NY: McGraw-hill.
