Project Review is a process of examining and auditing planned tasks, activities, procedures, events and other work components of a project to identify whether the project’s requirements can be fully addressed by the planned amount of work and to determine what additional resources are necessary to match the work with the requirements. It is an attempt to align current working environment with the requirements prior to the project implementation process gets started.
The purpose of the project review process is to provide a team with a clear and unambiguous understanding of the steps required to complete the project as per requirements. When the process is successfully carried out, the team as well as senior management gains two major benefits, such as:
- Improved decision making. Because the project is not started yet the team along with managers can analyze gaps of the initial plan and then make better decisions regarding necessary adjustments for further implementation of the project.
- Preventive actions. Because team members audit and examine planned activities at the very beginning, they better understand possible issues and problems that may occur during project implementation; hence they can develop preventive action plans, instead of planning for reactive and corrective actions when some problem occurs.