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Project Management: Post Mortems
Turning Your Project Management Post Mortem into an Organizational Asset
Created byBaba Oyewole, Oluseye Kolawole
Last updated 5/2026
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What you'll learn
- Project and Project Management Fundamentals
- Measuring Performance
- Beyond the Basics of Success
- Internal Environment Analysis
- External Environment Analysis
- SWOT Analysis
- PESTLE Analysis
- Common Causes of Failure
- Purpose of Post-Mortems
- After-Action Reviews
- Root Cause Analysis
- Lessons Learned Workshops
- Communicating Findings
- Audience Tailoring
- Driving Organisational Change
- Psychological Safety
- Documentation and Distribution
- Governance Integration
- Institutionalizing Improvement
- Reflective Leadership
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Course content
12 sections • 19 lectures • 1h 28m total length
Requirements
- Basic Familiarity with Projects
- Experience in a Team Environment
- An Interest in Professional Development
- An Open Mindset for Reflective Practice
- No Formal Qualifications Required
Description
Welcome to Project Management Post Mortem.
Most projects encounter challenges, and that is not a sign of failure in itself. The real difference lies in what happens after the work is done: do you simply move on, or do you turn experience into lasting organisational knowledge?
This course is designed to help you bridge that gap.
It gives you a practical framework for understanding what happened, why it happened, and how to ensure the same issues are less likely to happen again. Better still, we discuss how to capture, communicate and institutionalize the value from each and every project.
We look at stakeholders and their interests and how a Post Mortem can help achieve their objectives. We also look at the mindset to get the best out of Post Mortems.
You will learn how to structured post-mortems can facilitate honest conversations, uncover root causes, and communicate lessons in a way that leads to action rather than blame - a way that helps your organization grow, as a learning institution.
As a Project Manager, developing the capacity to translate post mortems into action, track and follow up is rare. That capability can career-defining because it shows you are not only focused on delivery, but on continuous improvement, professional judgement, and organisational maturity.
Whether you are a project manager, team leader, executive sponsor, consultant, or someone who supports projects from another perspective, the skills in this course will help you strengthen your impact.
The content is intentionally practical, immediately applicable, and relevant to real-world projects across industries.
You will finish with approaches you can use straight away to improve reviews, reports, governance, and team learning.
If you want to become the kind of professional who does not just complete projects, but helps your organization learn from them and improve with every cycle, this course is for you.
Enrol now and turn project experience into a lasting advantage.
Best regards,
Baba Oyewole FCCA and Oluseye Kolawole PMP
Who this course is for:
- Project Managers
- Programme Managers
- Business Analysts
- Portfolio Managers
- Product Managers
- Scrum Masters
- Agile Coaches
- Operations Managers
- PMO Leads
- Team Leaders
- Change Managers
- Risk Managers
- IT Managers
- Construction Managers
- Consultants
- Entrepreneurs
- Department Heads
- Quality Assurance Managers
- Strategy Managers
- Entrepreneurs
- C-Suite Executives
- Executive Sponsors