The Project Life Cycle (Phases)

Projects are broken into phases. The Project Management Institute suggested that project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and closing are the formal phases for each project. This chapter provides an overview of the work performed in each phase of a project. 

Introduction

The project manager and project team have one shared goal: to carry out the work of the project for the purpose of meeting the project's objectives. Every project has a beginning, a middle period during which activities move the project toward completion, and an ending (either successful or unsuccessful). A standard project typically has the following four major phases (each with its own agenda of tasks and issues): initiation, planning, implementation, and closure. Taken together, these phases represent the path a project takes from the beginning to its end and are generally referred to as the project "life cycle".


Source: Adrienne Watt, https://opentextbc.ca/projectmanagement/chapter/chapter-3-the-project-life-cycle-phases-project-management/
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