SKILL.md
Lessons Log
A lessons log entry captures significant learning from projects, incidents, or experiences in a format that's useful to future teams who weren't there. Unlike retrospectives (which focus on team improvement), lessons logs focus on organizational knowledge that transcends individual teams.patterns, anti-patterns, and hard-won wisdom.
When to Use
- After completing a significant project or initiative
- Following a major incident, outage, or failure
- When you realize something important that others should know
- After discovering a pattern that keeps recurring
- When experienced team members leave (capture their knowledge)
- During post-mortems to preserve learnings
When NOT to Use
- You are facilitating the team ceremony itself -> use
iterate-retrospective; this skill banks the durable entry that outlives it - You are deciding whether to change direction based on results -> use
iterate-pivot-decision - The learning is an experiment readout -> use
measure-experiment-resultsfirst, then bank the transferable lesson here - You are updating stakeholders on what was learned -> use
foundation-stakeholder-update