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title: Project Lifecycle
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# 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.