Hi Eve,

Your comment about your team developing their own version of an AAR caught my attention so I thought I would chime in.  I did something similar at my former employer so I thought I would share the tweaks I made.  I worked with our product development teams (laser printer manufacturing) and had them insert AARs at the end of each phase of their development process (this was essentially a 5-phase process going from early design and prototyping in the lab, scaling up until we got to the first manufacturing run).  We did this on several products over a couple of years so I had lots of opportunities to think about the AAR process and iterate on it.

I wrote my experiences up in a couple of blog posts that might be of interest:

• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lessons-learned-part-5-capture-using-after-action-reviews-pearce/
• https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lessons-learned-part-6-10-tips-facilitating-after-action-pearce/

Dennis Pearce