📝 What is my process for capturing experience? (part 3)

Reflection is another important aspect of the experience capture process. Do we carefully evaluate and critically think about what happened? We don't do this to blame ourselves or others, but rather to recognize areas where we might improve. Reflection can also include recognizing things that went well and what we need to keep doing.

Some examples:

• Personally spend 5m journalling at the end of each day. What went well? What did not? What are we thankful for?
• Blameless postmortems
• Periodic project review -- what have we learned? Is what we learned captured?
• Pull requests -- have we captured everything we have learned when we did this work? Are there documentation and tests so the work can be extended and reused?
• Look for opportunities to automate. Automation is one of the best ways to capture experience.

If we do not reflect, we are destined to keep repeating the same mistakes and needlessly doing the same work over and over.

One of the most tragic and common forms of human nature is to just keep doing what we are doing, even if it is not working.