No Longer Condemned to Repeat: Turning Lessons Learned into Lessons Remembered

Many organizations have Lessons Learned processes in place, and both positive and negative lessons are dutifully captured in corporate Lessons Learned databases. Even with a well-defined process and an effectively designed database, many of these supposed Lessons Learned are not really learned at all. Subsequent projects often struggle to find lessons that are both accessible and relevant to their current endeavor. As a result, many organizations “relearn” these lessons over and over again.