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Here’s another way to do a post-mortem after a project has finished. This approach gives you a chance to look at the positives as well as what went wrong.

You need: 40-60 minutes, pen and paper

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Try also: the basic post-mortem or Google’s ‘find the moral in the mistake’.

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