The Use of Project Post-Mortems
- Topics:
- Project Management
- Source:
- Management Science
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Overview: Project-based organizations, if they are to flourish, must learn from one project to the next. But one can observe in practice that project failure and success are rarely analysed by individual companies, and learning just doesn't happen. This paper will describe the work of a team that has been involved in post-mortem analysis of a range of projects over the past 8 years, for the purposes of preparation of Delay and Disruption (D&D) claims. The primary aim of this paper, however, is not to claim that this is the best way ofcarrying out post-mortems, but to start a debate on: Do we agree that post-mortems are important? why don't we carry out post-mortems in practice? what's the best way to carry them out, how can we learn from each project for the next project - both the easy lessons and the more complex non-intuitive behaviours of our projects? The answer to these questions have been discussed in the article.
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Format: PDF | Size: 53KB | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 12
