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Project Management Orientation

Conducting a Lessons Learned Session

Toward the end of the project, conduct a lessons learned meeting.  The output of the meeting will be a list of the lessons learned for inclusion in the project evaluation report.
  
Invite all the participants on the project.  Ask each to bring a list of what went well, what did not go well, and lessons that each learned.  On some large projects, you might want to conduct multiple meetings or a separate meeting with the suppliers and another meeting with the IBM team. 
  
The following is a sample agenda that works well. 
  
Agenda

Some questions you can ask to get the discussion started include:  
1: Getting Started
2: Define the Project Team
3: Team Management
4: Identify and Validate Requirements
5: Create Decomposition Structures
6: Risk Management
7: Project Estimates
8: Project Schedules
9: Change Management
10: Project Control and Execution
Defining the Project
11: Project Management Review
12: Project Closeout
13: Project Management Tool Suite
14: Self-Assessment and Final Exam
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