What is Lessons Learned Server?
Lessons Learned Server is an open source knowledge management application designed for teams to record and share lessons learned and best practices from past projects. The goal is to leverage insights and experiences, both positive and negative, to improve future initiatives and organizational learning.
With Lessons Learned Server, users can easily submit new lessons with details such as title, description, contributors, tags, dates, and custom fields. These posts are then searchable and shareable across the system. Users can discuss posts and upvote the most useful ones over time.
A typical use case is at the end of a project or milestone, the team performs a lessons learned exercise to document what went well, what could be improved, and recommendations. This knowledge is entered into Lessons Learned Server and then referenced at the start of the next project to avoid pitfalls. Over time, it becomes an organizational repository detailing successes and failures across teams.
As an open source tool, Lessons Learned Server is free to install on internal servers and customize to meet an organization's specific knowledge sharing needs. Overall, it enables retaining and harnessing hard-won experience in order to make better decisions.
Confluence, DokuWiki, Nuclino, MediaWiki, Wiki.js, Walling, XWiki, Fibery, Indigrid, Widget-Board, Notea are some alternatives to Lessons Learned Server.