"What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it"

- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosopher

It is a fact that the quote above applies to most organizations. Experience shows that we simply don't have a system of generating and utilizing the lessons learned.

It is also valid to say that a small percentage of organizations are actually supporting building such systems and encourage their teams in utilizing them.

Although many individuals believe that learning from analysis of the mistakes is a worthwhile experience, which should reduce future mistakes or improve on project delivery, a lack of such a system, that would allow for a disciplined approach in generating and utilizing lessons learned, doesn't not allow most organizations to build it and bring it to such maturity levels that would ensure it's sustained existence and future project and program increased successes.

 In this section, we aim to bring to the readers a number of articles describing methods of building such systems and methodologies that allow for generation and utilization of lessons learned in many types of organizations. 

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