The project life cycle is based on the 5 phases of Waterfall Project Management: Initiate, Plan, Execute, Monitor & Control and Close. The project life cycle is to make sure that nothing gets lost from project ideation to completion and closure. Below are 10 examples of a project. Identify which part of the life cycle the project is in and why. 1. Joe, the project PM, has just finished the project charter. What life cycle stage is Joe in? 2. Eileen is the project manager for some affinity projects that a health insurance company is going to put into their latest PPO product. In order to advertise the products, Eileen is going to a third party and signing contracts with a website developer who will be responsible for the launch of a new website when the affinity products are ready to be published. What life cycle stage is Eileen in? 3. Cheryl, the Business Analyst, has just realized that the website will take more than 1 FTE (full-time employee) work week to finish and will extend the deadline by at least one more week. What life cycle stage is Cheryl in? 4. Today is "go live" day for your product! Congratulations! What life cycle stage are you in? 5. Athena is measuring the product's parameters and thresholds and has just realized that she has more errors than are allowed for this product. What life cycle stage is Athena in? 6. ABC is the customer of your services and ABC is refusing to accept the service "as is" because the sales manager, Ari, guaranteed all print would be in blue and gold piping. ABC has just told the project manager, Tim, that they won't accept it. What life cycle stage is Tim in? 7. On the project management agenda for this week's project management cycle is "Lessons Learned". What life cycle stage is the project team in? 8. Your favorite show has just announced that they are filming Season 2. Yeah! What life cycle stage is the film crew in? 9. Brett is the project manager for a project that has just launched. He is now sending a note to a supervisor of each of the project team's members to be included in their personnel file. What life cycle stage is Brett in? 10. Leslie has just presented the project charter to the Business Sponsor, William. William has a couple of things that he feels need to be added to the project charter and the project before he signs off on it. What life cycle stage is Leslie in?