project-retrospective

# Project Retrospective ## What This Skill Does Takes raw notes about a finished media project and generates a structured LESSONS.md that captures reusable editorial decisions, workflow fixes, timeline findings, and specific carry-over items for the next project. ## When To Use This Skill - After a series, season, or multi-episode project wraps and you want to capture what the team learned before everyone moves on to the next thing - When a project ran over budget, over schedule, or below quality expectations and you need a written record of why, without blame, before the post-mortem meeting - Before starting a new project that resembles one you finished recently — run the retrospective on the old project first, then use the LESSONS.md as a planning input - When a freelancer or contributor is leaving the team and their working knowledge needs to be captured before they go - At the end of a pilot or proof-of-concept phase, to decide whether the format is worth continuing and what must change if it does ## What You Need To Provide **Required:** - Project name and format (podcast series, documentary, article series, YouTube channel launch, newsletter run, etc.) - What the original brief or goal was — in one or two sentences - What was actually delivered — scope, episode count, word count, whatever the countable output was - What went well — even rough bullet points are fine - What went badly or took too long — same level of detail **Optional:** - Timeline: planned vs. actual...