I was recently asked how to write a ‘good’ Lesson Learned. Many ‘lessons learned’ are merely observations, with no suggestion on how to do things differently. Two or three actionable recommendations are more useful than 20 observations without any suggestions. So this post is about how to write up a Lesson Learned so that it is engaging and…
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…a Case Study showing one approach to evaluating whether a project should be cancelled or completed.
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I’m going to take a calculated risk by standing up for the pragmatic application of process. Yes, that’s right, process. Now, people seem to enjoy a bit of process-bashing, and I get that: nobody wants to have their working lives organised for them to the point where they become a soul-less, heartless, brainless robot, but I am…
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I often wonder just how much project management organisations really learn from project successes and mistakes. I think we could all definitely learn better than we currently do. I will start by saying that we should not wait until the end of the project to learn lessons (both good and bad) – these will be happening all…
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