Goal: Use Vyndra's lifecycle structure to take a project from kickoff to closure without losing your mind.
Who this is for: Project managers running structured work. If your team is fully agile and never plans more than a sprint ahead, you can ignore most of this — but the structure is still here when leadership asks for it.
The 4 phases (quick definitions)
- Initiating — define why the project exists, who sponsors it, what success means.
- Planning — break the work down, estimate, schedule, identify risks.
- Executing — do the work; track progress; manage the team.
- Closing — finish, document, hand off, capture lessons learned.
Vyndra used to include a fifth phase ("Monitoring & Controlling"). We rolled it into Executing because in real life, monitoring happens continuously — it's not a separate phase, it's a posture.
Steps to move through phases
- Open your project from Projects in the sidebar.
- Project dashboard shows your current phase at the top, with a progress bar across the four phases.
- Inside each phase tab, you'll find the artifacts that phase needs:
- Initiating — Project Charter, Sponsor Sign-off
- Planning — Schedule, Budget, Resource Plan, Risk Register
- Executing — Tasks, Status Reports, RAID log updates
- Closing — Final Report, Lessons Learned, Benefits Realization
- Complete the artifacts for the current phase, then click Advance to [Next Phase] at the bottom of the phase tab.
Tip
You don't have to fill every artifact. Vyndra warns you about gaps but lets you advance — your governance team can configure which artifacts are required per methodology in Admin Console → Tailoring.
What's next
→ Read Log RAID items and use the AI RAID Coach to manage risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies as you execute.