Lessons

Unleashing the Power of Lessons Learned: Overcoming Common Challenges for Project Success

In the world of project management, certain areas consistently pose challenges and hinder success. In this dynamic presentation from Tom Quinn at Jacobs, we explore four to five crucial aspects that often cause problems or remain underutilised. Through lessons learnt, we examine how areas such as schedule, risk management, cost, reporting & data management, assurance and change, commonly go astray or fail to deliver desired outcomes.
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What We Learnt About Ourselves in 2020 – A Lessons Learnt Technique

In this article we're not delving too far into what PMO professionals have learnt about themselves in 2020 - it's more about a session we ran just before Christmas at our virtual party in Qube. We had chance to do a short retrospective - hopefully that's something you'll also be doing too to uncover the many lessons we've learnt over the last extraordinary year. Using a virtual world like Qube allowed us to gather around a whiteboard to use a specific technique to help draw out what we've learnt during 2020 about ourselves. The technique - called LearnBySharing™ - is also one you could use in any lessons learnt session, either inperson or virtually using Zoom, Teams or anything else you're using to stay connected.
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