Reinforcement for Running Retrospectives By Kiron D. Bondale Retrospectives are a common, regularly practiced ceremony on projects managed using an agile delivery method. But why stop there? There’s no reason that retrospectives couldn’t be...
Profound “Aha’s” and “Duhhh’s” By Ammar W. Mango Project Management practitioners call them lessons learned. These are lessons from things gone right and things gone not so right on the project. It is easy...
What’s Wrong with Lessons Learned Sessions? By Andrea Brockmeier What’s wrong with lessons learned sessions done at the end of a project? If the sentiments of my project management training students are any indication,...
Smart Project Endings Add Serious Value By Timothy Prosser Failing to effectively end projects can have high but hidden costs. Some companies are so buried in the latest and hottest project or in “fighting...
Project Management: Paying Attention to What Went Well By Chad Baker In a recent lessons learned session, a team member noted that responses to “What went well?” were often overlooked in favor of “What...
Project Post-Mortem By Deanna Chaney For two decades, I worked as both a technical writer and an instructional designer in the IT industry. My projects always supported a hardware or software rollout, rather than...
International Rescue – Recovering a Failing Project By Allen Ruddock As an experienced project manager you often get dropped in to a failing project to turn it around. How should you go about this....
Infographic: 4 Lessons in Project Management from the Renaissance By Tatyana Mishel Today’s projects don’t typically take 120 years to finish, and leadership doesn’t usually come in the form of a royal couple whose...
Project Management Lessons from the Olympics Games By Glenn Remoreras I have always been fascinated about how developed countries excel in the Olympics. In the recently concluded summer games in London, 6 countries from...
Importance of Lessons Learned in Project Management By Dianne Davenport Without lessons learned, Newton’s physics may not have superseded Aristotle’s physics Without Newton’s physics, Einstein may not have theorized on the curvature of time...
