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A Text Mining Approach for Extracting Lessons Learned from Project Documentation: An Illustrative Case Study
A Text Mining Approach for Extracting Lessons Learned from Project Documentation: An Illustrative Case Study

Author(s): Benjamin Matthies
Subject(s): Education, Management and complex organizations
Published by: Mednarodna fakulteta za družbene in poslovne študije
Keywords: project knowledge management; project documentation; lessons learned; text mining;

Summary/Abstract: Lessons learned are important building blocks for continuous learning in project-based organisations. Nonetheless, the practical reality is that lessons learned are often not consistently reused for organisational learning. Two problems are commonly described in this context: the information overload and the lack of procedures and methods for the assessment and implementation of lessons learned. This paper addresses these problems, and appropriate solutions are combined in a systematic lesson learned process. Latent Dirichlet Allocation is presented to solve the first problem. Regarding the second problem, established risk management methods are adapted. The entire lessons learned process will be demonstrated in a practical case study.

  • Issue Year: 6/2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 153-174
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: English