
Documenting Lessons Learned for Your Projects
In CornerThought, lessons learned can be documented in a structured manner to allow for root cause analysis, impact analysis, defining knowledge items for future projects and actions to ensure continuous improvement. As well, CornerThought is designed to allow for team discussion and vetting of lessons learned, adding attachments to add context, and to tag lessons to make them more searchable. To get started, click Add New Lesson Learned. You will be prompted to select the pr

Creating Project KPIs
You can create key performance indicators (KPIs) for your projects and assign these to your lessons learned in order to classify and assign criticality to them. Creating project KPIs allows you to define how a lesson learned impacted the success metrics of your project. To create project KPIs, click Project Details in My Current Projects, then click KPIs. Click Add KPI to add a KPI for your project. You will be prompted to select Quantitative or Qualitative KPI. Quantitative

Adding Team Members to Your Projects
To elicit lessons learned from your team, you'll first have to add team members to your projects. To do so, simply click Project Details on your projects in My Current Projects, then click Project Team and Categories. From here you can assign team members to your project by click Add next to their names. You can delete users by clicking the - next to their names under Team Members. Note that Project Managers and Administrators can add users of all levels to a project. Team Le

Creating Lessons Learned Categories and Business Functions
Lessons learned categories and business functions act as metadata to directly tag your lessons, making them directly searchable in the search bar, or in the categories drop down in the project view. You have the flexibility to define lessons learned categories for your project or organization as you see fit. Categories are meant to be topics related to the project and could be classifications like Cost Estimating, Resource Allocation, or Communications Management, or it could

Setup Projects in CornerThought
In CornerThought, lessons learned are sorted by project. So before adding lessons learned to your organizations database, you'll need to create projects within the system. To get started, you will need to setup the types of projects your organization completes. To do this click on Create New Project or My Current Projects then Manage Project Types. From here, click Add Project Type to define a project type within your organization. Once you've created the project type, you ca

Adding Users to CornerThought
CornerThought’s system has 5 user profiles: 1. Company Main Administrator, 2. Company Project Administrator, 3. Company Project Manager, 4. Project Team Lead, and 5. Company Basic User. These profiles determine what the user can view, edit, assign to other users and create. To add, delete, or modify users, click on Users in the top right menu. Set user profile based on the role you would like the user to carry out on their projects, what type of information you would like the