Project Lifecycle

1. Proposed

Capture the problem, intended outcome, sponsor, initial lead, constraints, dependencies, and rough effort.

2. Approved

Record the steering decision, committed scope, success measures, team, budget or capacity boundary, risks, and target dates.

3. Active

Maintain current status, decisions, risks, milestones, and material scope changes.

4. Paused

State the reason, preservation requirements, restart conditions, accountable owner, and review date.

5. Shutting down

Stop new commitments, inventory deliverables and dependencies, transfer or archive ownership, revoke project-specific access, and communicate impact.

6. Closed

Record the shutdown decision, final outcome against success measures, retained artifacts, unresolved obligations, lessons learned, and closure date.