Close Project or Phase is the process of finalizing all activities for the project, phase, or contract.

The key benefits of this process are the project or phase information is archived,

the planned work is completed, and organizational team resources are released to pursue new endeavors.

This process is performed once or at predefined points in the project.

The inputs, tools and techniques, and outputs of the process are depicted in

Figure 4.13. Figure 4.14 depicts the data flow diagram for the process.