what we do as part of scrum, which is simple, but seems effective, is  
that everyone writes down all the good things and the bad things they  
can think of on sticky notes.  you stick all the good things on one  
side and the bad things on another as you get the notes. then at the  
end you review them all, and pick 3 bad things to work on improving  
for next time and talk briefly about what you can do to improve them.

note this is for a 1 month "sprint" that is part of an overall  
project, not the whole project, but I think it's a useful exercise  
that might be applicable.  The whole team participates and it's over  
in an hour or less, with some useful action items (but not so many  
that nothing ever happens)

this doesn't deal with stakeholder feedback, just the team doing the  
work.  but if you can get stakeholders to show up, then it might work  
for them too.

MT

PS:  I prefer to do the bad news first and end with the good news, so  
everyone leaves feeling happy.


On Jan 8, 2008, at 11:50 AM, Petroff, Greg wrote:

> Wondering if anyone has a good framework for managing project post
> mortems.
>
> I am looking for ways to evaluate team performance, how well we met
> project goals, how good the "product" of efforts met user needs,
> capturing what we did well and what we need to improve on, stakeholder
> feedback etc.
>
> Anyone have a template they might be willing to share?
>
> What would you include in a project evaluation? How much time would  
> you
> spend with your team and stakeholders at the end of an effort to  
> assess
> how you did? Do you do Post Mortem's at all?
>
> Is there an essential aspect to doing them right?
>
> -Greg
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