Post Implementation Review (PIR)

Have you noticed that OSS projects need to go through extensive review to get funding of business cases? That makes sense. They tend to be a big investment after all. Many OSS projects fail, so we want to make sure this one doesn’t and we perform thorough planing / due-diligence.

But I do find it interesting that we spend less time and effort on Post Implementation Reviews (PIRs). We might do the review of the project, but do we compare with the Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) that undoubtedly goes into each business case?

OSS Project Analysis Scales

Even more interesting is that we spend even less time and effort performing ongoing analysis of an implemented OSS
against against the CBA.

Why interesting? Well, if we took the time to figure out what has really worked, we might have better (and more persuasive) data to improve our future business cases. Not only that, but more chance to reduce the effort on the business case side of the scale compared with current approaches (as per diagrams above).

What do you think?

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