Project Management Doesn't Stop at Project Closure

Jun 16, 2023 4:01 pm

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As business owners, operators and/or managers responsible for implementing initiatives, we sometimes overlook the value of learning something from our past projects.


It is very understandable to ask for a post-mortem on a failed project. However, ask almost any Project Management Professional® to do a post-mortem on a successful project and you will probably get a strange look from them.


Too often we focus on celebrating our successful projects (as we should) and talk minimally about why it was successful. While there is nothing wrong with celebrating a project's success, perhaps spending time finding out why it was successful will uncover valuable insights, which can be employed on future projects.


A project post-mortem is not a simple lessons-learned meeting. It is an agenda-specific meeting where hard questions get asked about the project: "What went well? What did not?" Taking a hard, honest, and direct look with open communications will turn out to be a worthwhile investment in time, energy and money.


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