The role and meaning of lessons learned in project knowledge management in organizations in Poland

摘要

The aim of this article is to establish the role and meaning of lessons learned collection and application practices in project knowledge management based on an empirical research in organizations running operations in Poland. The analysis conducted for the purpose of this article included hypothesis verification by means of statistical testing performed on data gathered from an online survey distributed among project management professionals in Poland. The testing results revealed that Polish project managers and project team members present positive attitude towards lessons learned practices and that there is a statistically significant correlation between lessons learned collection and application practices and benefits realization in terms of scope, time and budget in projects in the surveyed organizations differentiated by means of sector of operations, project maturity level and organizational culture. Also, specific barriers and obstacles in learning lessons from past experience in project management have been found and correlated with lessons learned collection and application practice.