Abstract
Understanding the essence of the failure experience and learning lessons from the failure experience are important to create knowledge. We think that our organization can strengthen the project management by learning from failure experience in past projects and sharing precepts in the organization. To learn from failure experience, we should utilization of the failure experience in project management. Our approach assumes the assessment activity by Project Management Office in an ongoing project. We surveyed on current assessment activity, and found the following issues. (1) How should assessment persons understand the situation in the project? Not every assessor has the ability to clarify all the aspects in the project. Often an assessor does not have enough information to verify the effectiveness of a countermeasure. (2) How should assessment parsons find information the project manager needs in the project? To solve above issues, we defined format to descriptive the situation in the project and search strategy of information the project manager needs.
