PM Believer: How Does Looking Back Help You Move Forward Better?

I am a believer in the power of project management.

As a professional project manager for twenty years, I have witnessed project success drive business results. I have also proven that project management can change lives and help achieve personal transformation. Now I am sharing some practical tips and techniques that you can use to help achieve your own personal goals, live your best life and become a PM Believer.

How Does Looking Back Help You Move Forward Better?

As the popular saying goes, “those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” This applies in many places throughout our lives.

This is also a core belief in the world of project management. When you reach the end of a project, or at other times when you have an opening, we take a minute to reflect on the project’s history. We ask ourselves and our team’s questions such as:

What has gone well so far that we would like to leverage for the future?
What hasn’t gone well that we would like to improve for the future?

By taking a minute to learn from our past history, we are better equipped to approach our future challenges.

This same pause to reflect is essential in your personal projects as well. For example, I often need to reflect on things like: How did that 5k race go? How did last month’s blog posts perform? Did that coaching session go as I had planned?

Fortunately, like many other challenges in our life, project management gives us a tool that we can use to achieve this. Learn more about this tool to help you learn from the past in this classic PM Believer: Look Back, Move Forward.

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Are you a leader?

Great project managers are leaders. The stronger your leadership skills, the more effective you will be at guiding your project to the finish line.

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