Chapter 7
Look back to look ahead
7.1 Understand why hardly anyone ever looks back
7.2 Look back to learn some lessons
7.3 Make it swift, painless and valuable
7.4 Look ahead to make looking back easier
7.5 Have a mindset for failure
7.6 Align incentives for looking back
7.7 Include lessons from the past in your proposal
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7. Look back to look ahead
7.1 Understand why hardly anyone ever looks back
Just about every self-respecting organisation has a policy requiring project owners to review or audit major initiatives on costs, implementation and results. At best, lip service is being paid to this, and even then mostly on an incidental basis rather than as a matter of course.
It’s rare for anyone to find ...
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