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Book “Learning Lessons from Projects – how it works, how it goes wrong and how you can do it better”

I wrote this book because it upsets me to see waste. That’s waste of money; waste of time; waste of knowledge. And not just mine either – anybody’s. Although the future is never exactly like the past, I believe that there are usually enough similarities between the two for our past experience to provide us with clues on how we could approach the future more productively – if only we knew how to find those clues, decode them and apply them. Organisations that run projects have experience and useful knowledge passing right under their noses every day, but so often the value in this experience goes to waste because of a failure to take appropriate action. This book attempts to address why this happens, and to offer to Project Managers (PMs) and Project Management Office (PMO) people some suggestions as to how to improve the way your organisations learns lessons from projects. If, as a result of reading this book, you are moved to do something differently that reduces some waste and improves the way that you and your organisation learn from running projects, then it will have achieved its purpose.