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Pier Luigi Calabria Project Manager| INFORM Institut für Operations Research und Management GmbH, Aachen, Germany Aachen, Germany
Does anybody have a brilliant idea on how to store, classify and make them FRUITFULLY SEARCHABLE, when the Lessons Learned documents are completed?

It is clear that in most of the companies we have quite an amount of good stuff that we learned on the way, the thing is that it's extremely difficult to search for the type of project you're looking for. Sometimes seems to be more helpful to interview colleagues, that could drive you to someone else, that you have not met yet, that made a similar project in the past.....

If you have a decent suggestion, please share, thanks in advance.
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
In my personal experience, I have obtained expected results and benefits when we consider it as an item inside a knowledge management system (where system is not software system).
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Aug 23, 2018 11:12 AM
Pier Luigi Calabria
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What is that then, if not a SW based thing? Tons of paper?

Just curiosity.
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Steve Ratkaj Ontario, Canada
We have a central repository for all projects including their documents which includes their lessons learned. The repository is fully searchable by various data fields. The issue is that no one was using the lessons learned - PMs ALWAYS think that they are smarter than their predecessors/ peers. To address that issue, we now have a champion within the organization that will institutionalize the lessons learned into lessons implemented.
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Aug 23, 2018 11:11 AM
Pier Luigi Calabria
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Did you insert any "tagging methodology" in order to improve the search? And, if so, who did establish the tags for each document?

I'm just trying to steal your experience, indeed.
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Pier Luigi Calabria Project Manager| INFORM Institut für Operations Research und Management GmbH, Aachen, Germany Aachen, Germany
Aug 23, 2018 10:10 AM
Replying to Steve Ratkaj
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We have a central repository for all projects including their documents which includes their lessons learned. The repository is fully searchable by various data fields. The issue is that no one was using the lessons learned - PMs ALWAYS think that they are smarter than their predecessors/ peers. To address that issue, we now have a champion within the organization that will institutionalize the lessons learned into lessons implemented.
Did you insert any "tagging methodology" in order to improve the search? And, if so, who did establish the tags for each document?

I'm just trying to steal your experience, indeed.
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Pier Luigi Calabria Project Manager| INFORM Institut für Operations Research und Management GmbH, Aachen, Germany Aachen, Germany
Aug 23, 2018 9:52 AM
Replying to Sergio Luis Conte
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In my personal experience, I have obtained expected results and benefits when we consider it as an item inside a knowledge management system (where system is not software system).
What is that then, if not a SW based thing? Tons of paper?

Just curiosity.
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Pier -

you might want to watch my on-demand webinar from April or May of this year on the LL topic - I've shared some of my thoughts on how to get more value from this poorly implemented practice.

Kiron
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Tamer Zeyad Sadiq Assistant Cost Manager| Turner & Townsend Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
The webinars are a good way to earn more knowledge and improve your skills as per your concern topics!!!!

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