tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19004578.post8645655564888316393..comments2024-03-13T20:27:14.816-07:00Comments on Thoughts of a Project Manager; Ryan Endres, PMP: Lessons Learned, where to document it?ryanendreshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05647348327198218196noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19004578.post-77221289094320583972009-09-02T13:42:24.837-07:002009-09-02T13:42:24.837-07:00Elisabeth,
Excellant point and agree with you 100...Elisabeth,<br /><br />Excellant point and agree with you 100% I wrote about it in my 10Mar2009 post http://ryanendres.blogspot.com/2009/03/lesson-learned-questions.html<br /><br />Here is Hal's post: http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2009/05/27/968/ryanendreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647348327198218196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19004578.post-43122058609118555582009-09-02T13:30:47.667-07:002009-09-02T13:30:47.667-07:00There are several problems with conducting the Les...There are several problems with conducting the Lessons Learned at the end of the project. First, most of the project learning happens in the heat of the project execution, which can be months, or even years before the administrative closeout process when the Lessons Learned session is "supposed" to be conducted. Second, by the time you get to the Lessons Learned during Administrative Closeout, most of the project team members, including the project manager have been reassigned to new and, quite frankly, more exciting projects. <br /><br />The way around both of these problems is make the Lessons Learned process an everyday occurrence, rather than a batch "one-time, end of project" occurrence, documenting the lessons as they occur, in a micro-blogging "Twitter-like" fashion. <br /><br />Hal explains it much better over at Reforming Project Management: I'd post the link but this comment field won't let me... :(Elisabeth Buccihttp://www.linkedin.com/pub/elisabeth-bucci/8/a81/46bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19004578.post-48222293279642211222009-08-31T18:35:07.076-07:002009-08-31T18:35:07.076-07:00Andre: excellent point about using Sharepoint to h...Andre: excellent point about using Sharepoint to house your project documents. The beauty of Sharepoint is that it has a built in wiki and discussion board that could be used for lessons learned (and I wouldn't be surprised if there was a blog plug-in available too). Thanks for your comments!ryanendreshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05647348327198218196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19004578.post-53154250059385079712009-08-31T05:19:08.107-07:002009-08-31T05:19:08.107-07:00Lessons Learned should always be documented within...Lessons Learned should always be documented within the project folder (I prefer MS Sharepoint), together with all relevant project documents. Within the lessons learned , links to the referred documents are necessary, to ensure the "lesson" can be followed along the documentation, project plans, calculations, etc ... . To ensure an official lessons learned document, I prefer to have this last document digitally signed by all parties, same procedure with all official project documents and quality gate results.Andre Barthelshttp://www.linkedin.com/in/andrebarthelsnoreply@blogger.com