Lea BongiovanniProject Manager| ConfidentialPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
What is the difference between "project successes and deficiencies" and "learned lessons?"
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Thilo WackHead of Existing Product and Test Lab| optimedTholey-Hasborn, Germany
From my perspective successes and deficiencies are simply data, i.e. you do not know the why and the resulting dos and don'ts. Lessons learned is information that you actually could act upon and you need to develop this from the data by analyzing it to understand cause and effect. However that does not mean that next time you'll actually really do better, especially if the lessons learned do not come from your own experience. But when that happens it's called knowledge... Saving Changes...
saurabh mahajanPMP, ITIL, PRINCE2| vodafonePune, Maharashtra, India
In my opinion both are dependent on each other.
While working on project activities you will face some difficulties/issues/escalations and from that you can maintain your lesson learned repository. From this same repository you can make sure your future project success.
So its like "Success / Failure -> lesson -> How to succeed and avoid failure" (Success or failure teaches you lesson, and this lesson teaches how to succeed)
Difference in Success/Deficiencies and Lesson Learned will be that the former can be thought of as milestone in project journey. Like for e.g success in mitigating risk. Where as the later is output from this success (milestone achieved) Saving Changes...
Lea BongiovanniProject Manager| ConfidentialPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
I appreciate the responses to my question. Saving Changes...
Henry HattenrathProject Consultant| Tectonic Engineering MSA LLCNew York, Ny, United States
Adding to the prior responses – here is my feedback on the questions.
• Project successes and deficiencies are project specific statements/phrases based on qualitative or quantitative assessments on various attributes.
• Lessons Learned are historical documents based on experiences from other projects or documents generated from the current project, which may be released while in-progress, at completion of significant milestones, or at the conclusion of the project. The Lessons Learned, which may be defined in the PMP for content and frequency, may be generated in Matrix format and contain positive and negative experiences, requirements, action taken, and recommended application in the future.
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