From the course: The Top 10 Project Management Mistakes—and How to Avoid Them

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Tip 10: Not reviewing

Tip 10: Not reviewing

From the course: The Top 10 Project Management Mistakes—and How to Avoid Them

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Tip 10: Not reviewing

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- My final common project management mistake is to not review your project at the end, and I think this is a really common mistake. Almost never do people review projects, and in 20 years of project management training, I mean I must have trained hundreds, thousands of people, I must have seen hundreds of projects, I've never, ever, in any of the organizations I've been into, I've never seen a file of reviews. A little book, or it could be online, where you could just look back through all the reviews of all the previous projects. So, often a company will have maybe 20 projects a year, so after five years, you could have 100 project reviews in a file, that would be so useful. And yet I've never seen it. So why do people not review a project, 'cause it's a no brainer, isn't it, to just think, what have we learned? Why don't we do reviews, and I think the biggest reason is we don't have time. Haven't got time to think about that project, we've just got to go charging on to the next, and…

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