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S2E5022 December 2020

S2E50: How can Lessons Learned improve projects??

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S2E50

S2E50: How can Lessons Learned improve projects??

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In the final episode of season 2, Val and Dale explore why lessons learned (or lessons shared) on past projects is such a challenge for most organisations to exploit and share their thoughts on how this might be overcome by discussing people, processes, and tools that might be involved in improving this area of project management.

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