Closing - Lessons Learned.

Best for: Project close-out retrospectives, wrapping a quarterly or annual review, postmortem conclusions, sharing the standards a failure produced

Use: When a project or quarter has ended and the deck should close on what the work taught you and what you will change, rather than on a recap of what you did. Use it for a close-out retrospective, a postmortem conclusion, or the last slide of a quarterly or annual review. It fits when the lessons reduce to two or three and each one can be said in a single sentence.

Avoid: Use closing-bento-recap for a summary that regroups the talk’s key points, closing-action-plan-checklist for action items with owners and due dates, closing-journey-milestone for a journey running from past into a future vision, and closing-decision-frame when you are asking for a decision between options. Use feature-benefit-ledger for a two-column mapping of features to benefits. Past four lessons none of them reads as a sentence, so group them back down to three.