Managing project knowledge is vital to developing a learning organization - an organization that learns from past mistakes, leverages past work, does not reinvent the wheel, gains insights from the past for future decision making, etc.

1. Discuss some of the challenges an organization may encounter in managing project knowledge. If possible, relate your response to experiences from projects you have managed or been involved with and attempt to provide a broad and wide-ranging perspective - for example, what role do technology, human factors and behaviors/agendas, incentives, management style, emotional intelligence, culture, politics, job security/insecurity, etc. play in ensuring that knowledge is effectively shared and managed.

2. As a project manager, how might you promote and facilitate effective management of project knowledge, and what skills do you believe would be important to do this?