Lessons learned is a term that refers to the process of capturing, analyzing, and applying knowledge gained from experiences to improve future performance. It involves identifying valuable insights, best practices, and areas for improvement, and leveraging this knowledge to enhance decision-making and prevent the repetition of mistakes. In this essay,… Read More »Lessons learned: General Issues
Lessons learned focus on the feedback of a project team with the intention to improve it in the future. In typical Erasmus+ projects, the project team creates content named “Intellectual Outputs”. Starting with 2021, this changed to content created in Work Packages. Nevertheless, there is a creative process with some… Read More »Lessons Learned: Content Creation
In many projects, the satisfaction of a positive project conclusion is so great that many partners forget about a “Lessons Learned” discussion. This is bad because the project partners miss the opportunity to improve and strengthen – mainly in project management. This analysis of the performance in the project, identifying… Read More »Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned (LL) are experiences distilled from past activities that should be actively taken into account in future actions and behaviors. In our environment of projects, lessons learned are the knowledge gained from the process of conducting a project. This includes the positives and negatives. The idea is to repeat… Read More »Lessons Learned
Planning the budget is one of the big issues when you write the project plan (or a project proposal for a European project). The first step is to identify the estimated costs. A properly working method is to take each work package, identify the costs in the different fields, and… Read More »Budget and Budget Problems
There are hard facts to measure the success of a project. The first is time and if you were able to manage your project in the foreseen timeframe it’s a success – that’s clear. The second factor is budget. Keeping the budget is a success factor in any case. The… Read More »Evaluation of the success of a project
The Business Dictionary defines a project as: Planned set of interrelated tasks to be executed over a fixed period and within certain cost and other limitations. Business Dictionary This short sentence includes several important key words which characterize perfectly what a project should be. Planned: There is a specific structure… Read More »What is a Project?