Lessons Learned
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by Jeffrey Martinez,
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Today's world is influenced by change. Project managers and their organizations need to embrace and sometimes drive changes to keep up with the pace in highly competitive environments. In this blog, experienced professionals share their experiences, tips and tools to manage and exploit changes and take advantage of them. The blog is complimentary to the webinar series of the Change Management Community Team and is managed by the same individuals.
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Lessons Learned
Did you learn the lesson?
The project is over and it’s time to celebrate. As the dust settles, it is a good time to capture what you have learned along the way. Taking the time to complete lessons learned will ensure that you and the organization are better prepared for the next project.
Below are recommendations for learning the lessons.
- Conduct a lessons learned session with the project team members.
- In the lessons learned session discuss what worked well and what could have worked better.
Note: Start with what worked well. It is difficult for people to think about the positive after focusing on the negative.
- Compile the information into themes.
- Share the information
- Integrate the lessons into your next project plan
And, now a most important question, what will you do to ensure that you apply the lesson(s)?
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Ronald Sharpe
on: November 09, 2020 12:00 AM |
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Rami Kaibni
Community Champion
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Thanks for the great tips Ronald. Lessons learned are very important and should be part of knowledge sharing for better performance on future projects.
Aaron Porter
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IT Director| Blade HQ
Payson, UT, United States
1. Don't wait until the project is over. Review at stage/phase gates or retrospectives. If you don't have those, find logical points to review and don't wait so long that important lessons fade or are forgotten.
2. Go beyond what did/didn't work. What is actionable? In what context (the current project, other active projects, future projects)?
Ronald, thank you for posting. Certainly need to include lessons learned as input into the planning phase.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing.
Well, its recommended to maintain & record the lessons learned register as a standard procedure of Project Management.
However, this feature is supported by EPM Enterprise project management module of any standard Enterprise Resource Planning ERP System such as SAP, MS Dynamics, or Oracle E-Business Suite etc.
Well, like the Knowledge Base maintained by any IT organization as standard procedure, we could similarly implement a lesson’s learned knowledge base with a searchable index, storing & maintaining for improving future projects & solving issues in the active projects.
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