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With high employee turnover how do you handle incorporating past Lessons Learned so team does not make same mistakes?

Last post 03:53 pm January 31, 2025 by Daniel Wilhite
3 replies
12:44 am January 30, 2025

I have 8 scrum teams.  We use lots of consultants.  I see us making the same mistakes that are already in our lessons learned.  How do I drive these lessons across all the teams, and to new team members?


06:56 pm January 30, 2025

Consider embedding lessons learned into the Definition of Done at an organizational level, and creating a sense of urgency for change to happen. Change will have to be more important than the day job.


01:27 am January 31, 2025

First order of business - be sure that YOU are not a part of that turnover.


03:53 pm January 31, 2025

Team agreements might help.  The team agrees to operate in some specific manners.  Doesn't matter if the team makeup has changed.  Especially if you are using a lot of consultants.  Consultants work according to the rules of the organization that are paying their bills. So have some basic rules that they need to follow.  Such as @Ian's suggestion of incorporating some of them into the Definition of Done. 


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