I normally LOVE doing Lessons Learned on projects. While I've worked with virtual teams in the past, I'm usually only dealing with three or four teams that are not co located and I would travel to each office to facilitate the lessons learned.
The project I'm currently on - the majority of my team is distributed across the country. literally. So, I'm looking for "lessons learned" on conducting lesssons learned in a virtual way. Conference calls are a part of my every day life now and of course I have access to webex but that is about the extent of my virtual tools when dealing with more than 2 locations.
I'm breaking up the lessons learned into phases and in my current phase, i'd be doing the lessons learned with abou 20-25 Network Engineers, Developers, QAs and DBAs and I'm going against about 15 different locations. Me traveling to those locations wouldn't work as there is usually only 1 person at each location....
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Bethany Saving Changes...
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Ian SutherlandIan J Sutherland| Kellian ConsultingBroxbourne, Herts, United Kingdom
I would look at one of the webenabled collaborative mind mapping tool s - I think mind manager from mindjet would do it.
It would help brainstorming and then structuring. It could also be left for a bit for later contributions. It might even be that you could use it's kink with PowerPoint or word to help you create at least the first draft report. Saving Changes...
Tom HerringtonPMO Project Portfolio Manager (Retired)| MeijerGrand Rapids, Mi, United States
If you use Sharepoint as your project or team portal, you can build a survey that the team can take as well as referencing those lessons learned items captured in a List. Reference can be made to this collaborative site when conducting your web conference. All participants are viewing the same documented information. Saving Changes...
