Subscription Levels for lessonslearned.info
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| Subscriber Type | Theorists: Students, instructors, trainers, trainees, professional associations and special interest groups. | General Users: Staff at educational institutions, government agencies, companies, businesses, organizations, corporations and firms. | Practitioners: Project managers, project team members, evaluators, researchers, analysts, consultants and other professionals |
| Subscriber Profile | For the most part just surfing the internet looking for general information to write papers, help to develop presentations or facilitate meetings in the areas of project management, knowledge management, data management, records management, information management, or evaluation management.
There is no pending requirement to develop a system to support LL. |
Keyword searching the internet looking for best practices to support project management, project evaluation and lessons learned.
Reviewing concepts to gain support for developing or enhancing internal processes with the expectation of enancing the LL system. |
Focused on specific articles and books to support best practices methodology.
Addressing requirements for project repositories, databases, dashboards or systems. |
| Current or Transitional State | Lots of information and trying to decide how to bring it all together to satisfy needs for information re-distribution.
Constructing case studies or training courses to support seminars. |
Wisely invested in establishing relationships with professional associations that discuss related concepts of project management and evaluation.
Books on shelves, concepts in computer files, and many good ideas in people's brains to support implementations. |
Acquired some references located at Resources|References to support project management and evaluation efforts in support of lessons learned.
Interested in acquiring more resources to improve processes. |
| Content Recommended | Review key concepts regarding project management and project evaluation.
Become familiar with the DIKUD continuum. Understand the types of roles and responsibilities in the field by reviewing: Resource|Jobs and Opportunities |
Review in depth concepts regarding project management project evaluation.
Understand concepts regarding benchmarking and best practices Acquire a PMBOK guide, visit PMI.ORG and EVAL.ORG See: Resources|References to increase organizational knowledge. Review techniques to better understand running focus groups, interviews, web-based surveys, etc |
Grow staff members and key contributors by reviewing the PMBOK (PMI) or PRINCE2 together in support of project management certification and have people attend webinars and conferences.
Connect with the American Evaluation Association (AEA) or American Educational Research Association (AERA). Review key concepts regarding competency development and capacity building. Consider using training and development programs as highlighted at Resources|Interactive Activities |
| Possible Next Steps | Read as many books and articles as possible at: Resources | References | Consider using a comprehensive resource kit by seeing: Support|LL Project Documentation. This PERK (Project Evaluation Resource Kit) will be included as a bonus gift in my new book coming out in 2011. | Consider using a comprehensive resource kit by seeing: Support|LL Project Documentation. This PERK (Project Evaluation Resource Kit) will be included as a bonus gift in my new book coming out in 2011.
Leverage Lessons Learned Support Systems and consider enhancing the use of Lessons Learned Repositories through application development. |
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