University Project: Lessons Learned Report for House Construction

This report is a lessons learned document prepared by a project manager for a five-bedroom house construction project in Ashburn, Virginia. The project, with a budget of $1.2 million and a 24-month timeframe, was successfully completed. The report outlines the project's objectives, the lessons learned approach, and a discussion of both positive and negative aspects of the project. Key successes included the use of an in-house design team and segmented project management, which enabled the project to meet its deadline. Challenges included client requirement changes and material quality issues due to budget constraints. The report concludes with recommendations for process improvements, such as completing project plans before the start and ensuring adequate budgeting for high-quality materials. The overall goal is to improve future projects and enhance the organization's reputation and profitability. References to relevant project management literature are included.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................2
2. Discussion..............................................................................................................................2
2.1. Lessons Learned Approach.............................................................................................2
2.2. Lessons Learned From This Project................................................................................3
2.2.1. Good things..............................................................................................................3
2.2.2. Bad things.................................................................................................................3
2.3. Process Improvement Recommendations.......................................................................3
3. Conclusion..............................................................................................................................4
4. References..............................................................................................................................5

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1. Introduction
The project is to construct a house in Ashburn, Virginia. This house had a five-
bedroom home that is estimated for costing $1.2 million and the time limit was 24 months.
This project is finished within the requirements. Project manager made all the Budget,
Schedule, Plan of communication and Process of the monitoring and control of this project.
Now, the lessons learned document need to be prepared by the project manager so that the
details of the project and the fault can identify by this organization.
2. Discussion
2.1. Lessons Learned Approach
The lesson learned is the documented data which can reflect the experiences of both
positive also the negative of the project (Pollard, McDonald & Hesslein, 2016). It represents
the assurance to the project management quality of the organization also the opportunity of
project manager for learning from exact experiences of the others (Day & O'Brien, 2017).
The process of this Lessons Learned has several stages that are Identify, Document, Analyse,
Store and Retrieve
Figure 1: Process of Lessons Learned
(Source: McClory, Read & Labib, 2017)

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2.2. Lessons Learned From This Project
From the above project, there are several things which go well along with many
things which went wrong, these are as follows:
2.2.1. Good things
i) The organization has its interior designer or the architect who created the plan of this
project also the detailed scope of this work by following the requirement of the client. So the
building is constructed exactly the client’s requirement.
ii) The project had divided into many segments and all the segments had their expertise team
(Day & O'Brien, 2017). For this reason, the project is completed within the timeframe of the
client.
2.2.2. Bad things
i) The client has changed some requirements during the progress of the project, so the
proposed plan needed to change within the cost.
ii) The materials were collected within the cost, so some of these materials were medium
quality due to the low budget that is not good for the project (Love et al., 2016).
2.3. Process Improvement Recommendations
To improve this wrong thing that happened in this project, some recommendations are
as follows:
i) The project plans need to complete before the starting of the project. If the requirements are
changed between the project development, then time is wasted along with the whole structure
needs to be altered.

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ii) The cost requires to fix after calculating the total expenses and knowing the price of the
best materials that are needed for this project, otherwise, the materials are not best due to low
budget.
3. Conclusion
The above-discussed lesson learned document can be delivered the right and the
wrong things happened in the project also the recommendation by which project manager can
improve the mistakes in their next project and gain the profit also the reputation for their
organization. This high-performance building is planned to activate as the energy-efficient,
strong building that on purpose enhances all the installed systems also stimulates health and
the productivity for all the residents of this building.

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4. References
Day, J. K., & O'Brien, W. (2017). Oh behave! Survey stories and lessons learned from
building occupants in high-performance buildings. Energy Research & Social
Science, 31, 11-20.
Love, P. E., Teo, P., Davidson, M., Cumming, S., & Morrison, J. (2016). Building absorptive
capacity in an alliance: Process improvement through lessons learned. International
Journal of Project Management, 34(7), 1123-1137.
McClory, S., Read, M., & Labib, A. (2017). Conceptualising the lessons-learned process in
project management: Towards a triple-loop learning framework. International
Journal of Project Management, 35(7), 1322-1335.
Pollard, J., McDonald, P., & Hesslein, A. (2016). Lessons learned in building high‐
throughput process development capabilities. Engineering in Life Sciences, 16(2), 93-
98.