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Why is it called lessons learned? Are there some projects that can be closed-out and documented easier than others?

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The author of this excerpt explains that change is inevitable during the life cycle of a project, but that project managers shouldn't allow occurrences whether negative or positive to dictate and/or deter project scope, or the outcome of a project.

For more information about lessons learned, please read the entire excerpt and view the information provided on this website by Jerry Madden: http://askmagazine.nasa.gov/issues/14/practices/ask14_lessons_madden.html . It provides a list of 100 Lessons Learned for Project Managers.

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A lesson isn't a real lesson unless it corrects something and/or changes something for the better. Thus, you haven't learned a lesson if you keep making the same mistakes over and over again. A project is supposed to be a unique event that will not ever happen again. Therefore, you can plan 50 parties in one ...

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