Big Companies and Post-Mortems At a Fortune 500 company where I used to work, the project team would convene after a project ended to conduct a post mortem. I used to think "How morbid" -- to view a project like a dead body. But often we'd find out that we should've done something differently. We'd also congratulate each other on what went well. And then years later at the same company we'd ask our consulting teams to conduct a retrospective at the end of an engagement (preferably with the … [Read more...]