iterate-lessons-log

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Creates a structured lessons learned entry for organizational memory. Use after an incident, a completed project, or a significant learning to record knowledge for future teams and initiatives. Distinct from iterate-retrospective, which facilitates the team ceremony; this skill writes the durable lessons entry that outlives it.

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<!-- PM-Skills | https://github.com/product-on-purpose/pm-skills | Apache 2.0 --> # Lessons Log A lessons log entry captures significant learning from projects, incidents, or experiences in a format that's useful to future teams who weren't there. Unlike retrospectives (which focus on team improvement), lessons logs focus on organizational knowledge that transcends individual teams.patterns, anti-patterns, and hard-won wisdom. ## When to Use - After completing a significant project or initiative - Following a major incident, outage, or failure - When you realize something important that others should know - After discovering a pattern that keeps recurring - When experienced team members leave (capture their knowledge) - During post-mortems to preserve learnings ## When NOT to Use - You are facilitating the team ceremony itself -> use `iterate-retrospective`; this skill banks the durable entry that outlives it - You are deciding whether to change direction based on results -> use `iterate-pivot-decision` - The learning is an experiment readout -> use `measure-experiment-results` first, then bank the transferable lesson here - You are updating stakeholders on what was learned -> use `foundation-stakeholder-update` ## Instructions When asked to create a lessons log entry, follow these steps: 1. **Choose a Descriptive Title** Write a title that someone searching for this topic would find. Include keywords that describe the situation and the learning. Avoid generic titl...

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product-on-purpose
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product-on-purpose/pm-skills
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7 months ago
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Language
JavaScript
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Apache-2.0

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