Assignment 11.2: Conduct a mini After-Action review exercise Copy
For this assignment, we want you to reflect back on an activity, task or project and conduct a mini After-Action review exercise. This exercise should be quick and kept simple.
- Select a recent task or activity or project you have recently completed, that you would like to review.
- Gather the people who were involved in the selected task
- Reflect on the selected task or activity by going through the following questions
Question | Purpose |
What was supposed to happen? What actually happened? Why were there differences? | These questions establish a common understanding of the work item under review. The facilitator should encourage and promote discussion around these questions. In particular, divergences from the plan should be explored. |
What worked? What didn’t? Why? | These questions generate reflection about the successes and failures during the course of the project, activity, event or task. The question ‘Why?’ generates understanding of the root causes of these successes and failures. |
What would you do differently next time? | This question is intended to help identify specific actionable recommendations. The facilitator asks the team members for crisp and clear, achievable and future-oriented recommendations. |
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What did you learn from this activity? Was it useful to you? Did it surface issues that you were unaware of? Do you consider this to be a useful tool help you to reflect on your project and take the lessons learned to improve future activities/projects?