atw: Re: Lessons learnt or Lessons learned?
- From: "Warren Lewington" <wjlewington@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:31:14 +1100
Oh goody, That includes burning at the stake doesn't it? I like them.
In any case, you would tend to write the "lessons"as changes to process and
modifications to systems wouldn't you?
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Subject: atw: Re: Lessons learnt or Lessons learned?
The term "lessons learned", or in the Southern Hemoisphere "lessons learnt"
is global project managment terminology.
It refers to one of the outputs of project closeout process group, and
entails a project team workshop in which we list all of the things we did
this time that we want to be sure to do on the next project, as well as all
of those things which we did do and vow not to do the next time. The
deliverable of this workshop is an organisational process asset we entitle
"Lessons Learned". (or learnt as the case may be). Ideally, in progressive
organisations intent of delivering continuous improvement, the information
from teh workshop gets collated and process in a relational database for
easy future access.
The process very much resembles that process in Judochristian theology
called "Confession".
On 12/12/2007, Brian A Clarke <brianclarke01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Ilana,
I'm interested to discover who is writing this document and what relation
this writer has to those who are alleged to have learned. I have found this
construction 'Lessons learnt' used mostly by teachers as some kind of
surrogate for not having checked what pupils did actually learn, ie, it's a
description of what the teacher hoped got across. For such cases, the better
construction would be 'teaching objectives' [the teacher's aims] or
'learning outcomes' [what the teacher hopes the learners will get].
Quite apart from whether a word is Old English or Middle English, a
different aim may be to use the fewest letters to convey a meaning clearly.
But the superior goal would be to use the language of the audience - based
on a recent, accurate user analysis that sits beside your keyboard.
Brian.
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