The Lessons Learned Template provides an opportunity for reflection after a project has been completed. It is highly beneficial to record what worked well with the project and where improvements can be made.

Once the project has been completed, a Lessons Learned discussion should be scheduled with key stakeholders in the project to discuss what was learned from the project.

The Lessons learned Template provides the following topics:

  Project close-out discussions
        Attendees
        Project's biggest successes
  Lessons learned that worked well or didn't work well:
        Knowledge area
            Project initiation
            Project planning
            Project management
            Staffing
            Project communications
            Project funding
            Project costs
            Schedule compliance
            Project roles and responsibilities
            Risk management
            Procurement
            Requirements definition
            Scope creep
            Development
            Quality assurance testing
            Training
            Documentation
        Approvals.

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