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Four ways of Termination

1. Termination by Extinction

The project may end because it has been successful and achieved its goals. The project may also be stopped because it is unsuccessful or has been superseded. A special case of termination by extinction is “termination by murder” which can range from political assassination to accidental projecticide. There are two important characteristics of termination by murder are the suddenness of project demise and the lack of obvious signals that death is imminent.

2. Termination by Addition

If a project is a major success, it is terminated by institutionalizing it as a formal part of the parent organization. When project success results in termination by addition, the project personnel, property, and equipment are often simply transferred from the dying project to the newly born division.

3. Termination by Integration

This method of terminating project is the most common way of dealing with successful projects, and the most complex. The property, equipment, material, personnel, and functions of the project are distributed among the existing elements of the parent organization. In general, the problems of integration are inversely are inversely related to the level experience that the parent or client has dad with the technology being integrated or with the successful integration of other projects regardless of technology.

4. Termination by Starvation

It is “slow starvation by budget decrement”. Almost anyone who has been involved with projects over a sufficient period of time covered a business recession has had to cope with budget cuts.

Non-Working Experience Application

I believe the termination by starvation is one of the common way which a project is going into recession or be terminated. Last year, our family have the project to rebuilt kitchen. We already have the design...