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Did you conduct a Post-Mortem meeting?

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Mayte Mata Sivera PMO Leader | Speaker | Author Ut, United States
A long long time ago, I participated in a post-mortem meeting, lately I'm not using this tool.

What are the benefits that you found conducting a post mortem meeting? Does it impact your upcoming projects as regular "lessons learned"?
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Robert German Innovation Consultant| Better By Design Chicago, Il, United States
Jul 23, 2018 11:34 AM
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@Rober, lol it doesn't fit in the subject of the meeting! :)
Interesting. Perhaps I misunderstood. What is your intention/purpose of this meeting, and who is the audience?
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Jul 23, 2018 12:15 PM
Mayte Mata Sivera
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@Robert, I only agreed that "continually striving to get better by engaging with the people who can help make it better" maybe is too long and doesn't fit in the subject of the meeting request...neither in the first slide...however it grabs the sense of the meeting.
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Mayte Mata Sivera PMO Leader | Speaker | Author Ut, United States
Jul 23, 2018 11:50 AM
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Interesting. Perhaps I misunderstood. What is your intention/purpose of this meeting, and who is the audience?
@Robert, I only agreed that "continually striving to get better by engaging with the people who can help make it better" maybe is too long and doesn't fit in the subject of the meeting request...neither in the first slide...however it grabs the sense of the meeting.
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1 reply by Robert German
Jul 23, 2018 12:34 PM
Robert German
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Oh, I see. So I did misunderstand you after all :)

I believe that communication is the hardest thing to do well, for all involved on a project team. Many take communication for granted, when it should be center focus. Being able to give and receive constructive feedback is a skill. So, too, is facilitating the feedback loop and implementing it in a continuous improvement process.

When implementing your continuous improvement processes, make the processes, tools and techniques also subject to continuous improvement. Look at all of it as an ongoing experiment that will end when humans become 100% perfect (or the robots take over).
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Robert German Innovation Consultant| Better By Design Chicago, Il, United States
Jul 23, 2018 12:15 PM
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@Robert, I only agreed that "continually striving to get better by engaging with the people who can help make it better" maybe is too long and doesn't fit in the subject of the meeting request...neither in the first slide...however it grabs the sense of the meeting.
Oh, I see. So I did misunderstand you after all :)

I believe that communication is the hardest thing to do well, for all involved on a project team. Many take communication for granted, when it should be center focus. Being able to give and receive constructive feedback is a skill. So, too, is facilitating the feedback loop and implementing it in a continuous improvement process.

When implementing your continuous improvement processes, make the processes, tools and techniques also subject to continuous improvement. Look at all of it as an ongoing experiment that will end when humans become 100% perfect (or the robots take over).
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Drew Craig Sr. Agile & Product Coach| Vanguard Philadelphia, Pa, United States
Jul 23, 2018 11:19 AM
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@Andrew, you nailed "properly captured and stored". Where you stored it? Sharepoint?
Yes, at my last engagement, we had SharePoint. Currently, we have Confluence, which is not nearly the same but can still maintain tables within and label for searchability.
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Drew Craig Sr. Agile & Product Coach| Vanguard Philadelphia, Pa, United States
Jul 23, 2018 11:29 AM
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@Andrew, do you have a proposal for a new name? :)
How about using the term AAR - After Action Review. Or possibly calling it a Project Retrospect.
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Jul 23, 2018 2:33 PM
Mayte Mata Sivera
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Retrospect...too much agile for me hahaha
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Mayte Mata Sivera PMO Leader | Speaker | Author Ut, United States
Jul 23, 2018 1:24 PM
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How about using the term AAR - After Action Review. Or possibly calling it a Project Retrospect.
Retrospect...too much agile for me hahaha
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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Jul 23, 2018 11:14 AM
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@Sante, have you ever felt that was a "therapy group" instead of a constructive meeting?
Yes Mayte sometimes, but it really depends on the level of skill of the facilitator.
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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Jul 23, 2018 11:34 AM
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@Sante, I'm also not fan of "war room"... but not sure if we could re-brand all the terms that "we don't like" :)
Yes "War Room" is another one some people have a problem with. I don't really see the issue of any of these words, but in today's padded room culture of safety and political correctness, society is starting to not only avoid words, but stop their use, and even worse, force us to say certain words. But I digress...
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