project-retrospective

A LESSONS.md retrospective captures institutional knowledge by documenting what worked, what didn't, and the real problem. You generate this structured post-mortem file using research-project templates to ensure consistent, actionable learnings when closing out investigations.

A LESSONS.md file is a retrospective document that captures institutional knowledge and project failures. You need it when closing out journalism investigations, events, or publications to preserve institutional memory and generate reusable artifacts for future onboarding.

Available templates include research-project.md, event.md, publication.md, and editorial-tool.md. These templates standardize post-mortems by providing structured sections for what worked, what didn't, and reusable artifacts to aid onboarding and process improvement.

Yes, you can use retrospective templates for event planning and publication projects. The skill provides specific event.md and publication.md templates to standardize post-mortems and capture actionable learnings when closing out these types of work.

The best way to document institutional knowledge is generating a LESSONS.md file with structured post-mortem templates. This enforces consistent documentation of failures and successes, creating reusable artifacts that preserve memory for future onboarding and process improvement.

Yes, this retrospective approach works for documenting editorial tools by providing a dedicated editorial-tool.md template. It structures the capture of what worked and what didn't, turning operational experience into reusable artifacts for process improvement.