In this chapter, you reviewed quality control and validate scope as ways to make sure that your product service or result is meeting requirements. Then, you reviewed formal change control and why changes may be necessary on the project and organizationally. Finally, you covered the entire procurement process, from planning for procurements, conducting procurements, controlling, and closing procurements. All these topics are large topics to cover, and change can happen anywhere, at any point, and in any knowledge area.

In Chapter 10, Formal Project or Phase Closure and Agile Project Management, we will wrap up everything with formal project or phase closure, final-lessons-learned meetings, and postmortems, as well as get a crash course on the other side of project management—the agile side.