Program Closure Recommendation
How can program closure recommendation support strategic choice or positioning?
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Purpose. Use this recommendation to ask programme governance to conclude that the programme is ready for official closure. For normal closure, the evidence should show that intended benefits have been realised or transferred to accountable owners, required deliverables and objectives have been completed, components have closed under approved policy, and remaining obligations have durable ownership. Application. The programme manager prepares the recommendation during the closure phase and should test support with k
Use context
Purpose, application, discipline.
Purpose
Use this recommendation to ask programme governance to conclude that the programme is ready for official closure. For normal closure, the evidence should show that intended benefits have been realised or transferred to accountable owners, required deliverables and objectives have been completed, components have closed under approved policy, and remaining obligations have durable ownership.
Application
The programme manager prepares the recommendation during the closure phase and should test support with key stakeholders before submission. The Governance Board records its recommendation in the governance decision register; the programme sponsor then exercises the authority to close the programme. Preserve this sequence where it reflects the programme's governance model, or document the authorised equivalent. Before
Completion discipline
Complete the document from current evidence, name its owner and approving authority, and link the plans, registers or decisions that support it. Retain approved versions and review the document whenever a material assumption, dependency, requirement or governance decision changes.
Field summary
Structured sections without protected files.
Document control
Program name, Program manager, Program sponsor, Actual start date
A. Purpose
Purpose
B. Reasons for request
Reasons for request
C. Resources released
Resources released
D. Disposition of property
Disposition of property
E. Recommended changes
Recommended changes
F. Continued benefits realization
Continued benefits realization
G. Stakeholder communications
Stakeholder communications
H. Program completion closure certificate
Program completion closure certificate
I. Approvals
Program manager, Program sponsor, Governance Board member 1, Governance Board member 2
Protected resources
Included resource formats.
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