Which is true about documentation for project closure?
If a project is over budget it can be valid grounds for deliverable rejection even if this is not included in acceptance criteria.
Product documentation formally ends a project and releases team members
Only complete deliverables can be transferred to the responsible party.
Documentation may include operations and maintenance manuals.
Documentation may include operations and maintenance manuals
What is generally true of evaluation project outcomes?
Use of project outcome evaluations is generally enthusiastically promoted by team members and executives.
Usually there is no way to assess the performance of project managers except by the success or failure of the project.
Project schedules usually have sufficient time remaining for outcome evaluations.
Project managers investigate the root causes of success as much as of failures.
Project managers investigate the root causes of success as much as of failures.
Which is a management task as opposed to an administrative task?
Making final payments and accounting for them
Updating contract records
Verifying auditing contract terms and conditions
Assessing the contractor’s performance
Assessing the contractor’s performance
Once a building is commissioned, how long does a commissioning authority continue to monitor the facility?
For the life of the facility
At a minimum until deliverable acceptance is complete
At a minimum for an extended operations and maintenance period beyond the warranty period.
At minimum for the warranty period
At minimum for the warranty period.
What is the purpose of retainage?
to require repair of major variances from planned construction discovered in an as-built review.
To ensure no liens remain on project work at project closure
To enforce the repair of all punch list/snagging list defects
To ensure sufficient funds are available to pay the general contractor.
The purpose of retainage or retention is to ensure that the general contractor pays all subcontractors so that project is fee from all liens at completion.
What is developed to review a final deliverable from an entire system perspective?
Quality assurance tests and measurements
Punch list/snagging list walkthrough
Statement of requirements
Checklists reviews
Checklist reviews
Which is true of the contract closure process?
Early contract termination can be accomplished by premsenting evidence of noncompliance by the other party, but the evidence may require legal review.
Contract administrators wait until the last contract is complete before beginning the close contracts process.
The original contract without modifications is used when the contracts are complete to verify that all contract terms and conditions are satisfied.
If a contract is terminated early due to noncompliance on the contractor’s part, the organization has no monetary obligations for work partially completed.
Early contract termination can be accomplished by presenting evidence of noncompliance by the other party, but the evidence may require legal review.
If final deliverables from contractors are rejected, what is the proper method of handling the situation?
Keep the contract open and provide a letter indicating the unmet criteria and required actions.
Terminate the contract and cite the reasons for contractor noncompliance
Close the contract but provide a verbal warning to make corrections before initiating formal procedures
conditionally accept the deliverables but request certain corrective actions’
A written list of rejected deliverables is provided to contractors with reference to the unmet criteria in the contract and the contractually required corrective actions or defect repairs. Once the contractor completes the repairs, the deliverables are validated by quality assurance. Unless contracts are terminated, contracts remain open until all deliverables have been accepted and repairs have been validated.
KEEP THE CONTRACT OPEN AND PROVIDE A LETTER INDICATING THE UNMET CRITERIA AND REQUIRED ACTIONS.
