Is A Post-Implementation Review Critical to Project Success? - Nolij Consulting
Concluding a project in IT does not mean finishing the project management timeline. A Post Implementation Review (PIR) is led to completing the project and is one of the most significant parts of the project life-cycle as it safeguards the organizational benefits from the project’s outcome. The objective is not an end in itself but relatively to address the detailed business requirements. It is for this reason a PIR is critical to an effective project, evaluating whether project purposes were met, how successfully the project was run, lessons for the future, and the actions essential for the profits from the project outputs. In 2020 Nolij was tasked by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) to do an independent PIR of their mission-critical Integrated Management Administrative Resource Tool (iMART) and their Manufacture, Stock, and Delivery system. In association with two FAS stakeholder groups, Nolij analysed data to control whether crit...