{"id":2578,"date":"2009-06-16T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2019-08-07T14:31:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T21:31:11","slug":"project-management-and-knowledge-management-part-2-after-action-reviews-as-a-knowledge-management-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=2578","title":{"rendered":"Project Management and Knowledge Management, Part 2: After-Action Reviews as a Knowledge Management Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After Action Review, by betseymerkel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In my first post about Project Management and Knowledge Management I spoke about Collaboration, in this second post I will talk about after-action reviews.<\/p>\n

After-action review also known as a project snap-shot, lessons learned, or any number of other names is an important Knowledge Management activity to complete at the end of a project. They don\u2019t have to be long and cumbersome, in fact they shouldn\u2019t be. Taking a few minutes to summarize key decisions that were made, things that went well, things that should be done again, things that didn\u2019t go well, and things that shouldn\u2019t be done again is an important learning tool for project team members and for future teams–if they decide to go and look for lessons learned before starting a project. This is especially true for inexperienced project teams\/members, i.e. they should be looking for lessons learned before starting a new project.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Some project managers will argue that there is no point in doing after-action reviews that no one looks at them and that may be true. I have gone to many Knowledge Management conferences in the past and at the ones I have attended recently it surprised and frustrated me that many of the case studies seem to repeat the same lessons learned, in fact I wrote about it in an earlier blog post<\/a>. That doesn\u2019t mean that after-action reviews shouldn\u2019t be done, it means that project managers and others need to remember to go and look for lessons learned and not fall into the \u201cnot invented here\u201d trap of thinking that no one has done a particular activity before or that if it hasn\u2019t been done by them\/their organization there is nothing to be learned from other\u2019s experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Even if no one outside of the project team uses the lessons learned it\u2019s important for the project team to do the analysis. Sometimes things are happening so quickly on the project that team members need to take a few minutes once the project is done to tie everything together. Once all the tasks are complete they can see the big picture of what actually happened and the consequences of certain actions and decisions so they can learn and do things differently next time, make new mistakes rather than repeating the same ones time and again.\u00a0I know I like to make new and improved mistakes rather than the same old ones.<\/span><\/p>\n


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