Topic: Strengthen your organization with PM peer reviews

Each undesirable outcome harms us to some degree, but it can also teach us how to avoid similar outcomes in the future, which makes us stronger… assuming that it doesn’t kill us!

How much we learn in these cases usually correlates with the pain it causes us. However, not many people are close enough to the source to feel the pain to absorb the information effectively enough and generate usable knowledge from it. The result is that the organization as a whole doesn’t learn as much as it can, and others would make similar mistakes and get similar undesirable outcomes on their own.

One solution to this problem is to bring more people closer to each potential source of pain. They would bring their existing knowledge, which can prevent the problem, and on the other hand, if the problem arises, they would be close enough to the source of pain to learn from it.

This solution can be implemented by having structured, frequent peer reviews for the project management activities. I’ll explain how it can work in a project, what benefits you can expect, and what difficulties you may experience along the way.

Professional background

Frank Turley is a renowned project management author, speaker, and adviser with more than 16 years of experience in project management. He has trained hundreds of project managers in various methodologies and is committed to changing the way the world learns and practices project management. Frank’s mission is to help individuals and organizations improve their project management practices through practical training, sharing training material, sample projects, and highlighting the more important PM techniques.