Stop asking for Project Lessons Learned

Stop asking for "Lessons Learned". Start asking for "Lessons Applied".

How many times have you sat in a post project meeting review, listing out all the "Lessons Learned", only to see them filed away in a document that's never read again?

The traditional retrospective doesn't work. We've become experts at identifying what went wrong, but we fail at the most crucial step: Changing our future behaviour.

A lesson isn't learned when it's documented. It's learned when it's applied.

🚀 Knowledge is passive. Action is progress. 🚀 

What actually works is challenging the team to reframe their retrospective, and asking one single but powerful question:

🎯 "What is the one process we will change for our next project?" 🎯 

This question moves the focus from documentation to action. It forces us to be specific, to commit to real and tangible change, and to hold ourselves accountable.

Instead of a long list of "lessons", you get a single, actionable commitment. That's how you build a culture of continuous improvement.

⚙️ Stop collecting lessons. Start applying them. ⚙️