What is a project review?
These activities have many names: Project Reviews, Debreifs, Retrospectives, Post Project Reviews, Mid Project Reviews, Project Audits, Lessons Learned.
Most often called Postmortems on software projects, Project Reviews are examinations of projects or events for the purposes of:
- Reviewing the events that occurred.
- Evaluating not only what happened, but also why those events happened.
- Determining the correct actions to take to improve the results of the next event or project.
Project Reviews can occur at any time during a project and can be used to evaluate the success of both events and projects.