The debrief was scheduled for sixty minutes and ran two hours,
The additional sixty were devoted to the powers
Of hindsight restructuring the project into the narrative
Of a learning experience, the declarative
Statement of the debrief is: what went well and what didn’t,
The what-didn’t list was longer and the hidden
Cost of the two hours is the forty-minute agreement
That the what-didn’t items would be the bereavement.
It’s the debrief, it’s the retrospective of the thing,
The debrief and the lessons that the next thing will bring
Into its planning because we’ve documented the fails,
The documentation goes into the project trails
Of a shared drive folder titled retrospectives dash year,
Which has twenty-three documents and the clear
Evidence that the same lessons appear
In seven of the twenty-three, the debrief’s here.
The facilitator used a construct of four quadrants,
Stop, Start, Continue, and the respondents
In the room populated the sticky notes,
The sticky notes were consolidated into coats
Of themes by the facilitator in the synthesis,
The synthesis took forty minutes and the genesis
Of the action items was a list of six,
The action items and the retrospective fix.
The six action items were assigned to individuals,
Three of them required collaboration across residuals
Of the team that had already disbanded,
The action items landed with the mandated
Owners and were never addressed because the next project
Had already started and the object
Of the institutional learning is the document,
Not the change, the debrief and the monument.