Projects end. Lessons stay.
We close every project with a lessons-learned meeting: deviations, risks, findings and improvement opportunities that feed the next one.
Guadalupe Miño
Enecuatro
By Guadalupe Miño, Project Manager at Enecuatro.
Handing over a project is not the end of the work. At Enecuatro, every completed project closes with a lessons-learned meeting: the whole team sits down to review deviations, the risks that came up, the findings and the improvement opportunities that emerged during execution.
This time it was a project we had just delivered: the refurbishment of IFF’s offices. The goal is not to point at mistakes but to strengthen our processes and the way we work, so that what we learned on one site is available on the next.
Why we take the time
A project leaves much more than a delivered result. It leaves concrete information about how we plan, how we coordinate and how we respond when the plan changes. If that information is not captured in time, it is lost.
Closing sessions allow us to:
- Review schedule and scope deviations, and understand where they came from.
- Document the risks that materialised and the ones we managed to anticipate.
- Record technical and management findings that are useful for other projects.
- Turn every observation into a process improvement.
A culture built as a team
We know there is still a lot to improve. But the active participation, openness and commitment of the whole team during the meeting confirm we are heading in the right direction: a way of working that is more solid and collaborative every time.
Special thanks to Soledad Zabala and Diego Papasergio for their trust and for driving initiatives like this one, which foster a culture of continuous improvement, learning and collaboration within the team.
Every finished project is a chance to capitalise on what we learned and face the next challenges with more tools and more experience.
Projects end. Lessons stay.
Originally published on LinkedIn.
