Strategy Survival Guide

Strategy Survival Guide Version 2.1
Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit
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Evaluating the project
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This exercise, involving all team members, should be conducted at the end of the project to evaluate whether
the project met its objectives and identify key lessons learned. It is important to:
• have a meeting to do this explicitly. Make this a formal post-case review and audit session.
• use the session to assess content and process learning
• make sure everybody is present.
Possible Agenda:
Agenda Items
Project evaluation
Lessons learned
Stakeholder and relationship development
Plan knowledge capture
Team discussion on support staff
performance
Purpose
To debate satisfaction with outcome and
process of the project
Top insights
Key process learnings
Identify/prioritise opportunities for further
developing relationship
- Who and how
- Timeline definition
Satisfaction of material for Knowledge
Management
Provide team feedback and evaluation
Key aspects to cover are
1. what went well
2. what went less well, and
3. lessons for future projects or pieces of work.
Some of the issues the discussion should cover are:
• How well was the study specified?
• How convincing was the analysis?
• How effective were the working methods?
• What impact has the work had?
• What was media coverage of the work like?
• How should the results of the evaluation be disseminated?
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