Lessons learned have long inspired my own development of skills and understanding of how to improve project management practices. At conferences, it is the case studies delivered by practitioners that I hunt out. When interviewing or coaching project managers, I listen avidly to their descriptions of triumphs and challenges. Why did it go wrong or right is never a simple story, but it is a story that informs the cultural heritage and wealth of knowledge, which underpins project management.
So, as you can imagine, it was with great delight that I received a dissertation proposal from one of my students on the topic of whether and how lessons learned were being applied in the business environment. Her results were clear. That while many ...
Get Stakeholder-led Project Management, Second Edition, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
