Every project offers your staff unique opportunities to expand and improve their capabilities. As your team begins the process of project close-out, the obstacles faced by the project team are still fresh, and thus a window of opportunity exists for you to capture those lessons, and make them available to teams going forward.

Lessons Learned Analysis is a key aspect of the Project Close Out Phase. Many organizations benefit from having a third party vendor to come in and conduct this analysis, as objectivity and impartiality are key to getting good results. The primary goal of the Post Implementation Review is to gather data for use on future projects, thus greater objectivity is by definition a positive influence toward getting mileage from this study.