After Action Review Report Template

The benefit of AAR is realized when the output of the workshop is shared with other teams and projects. A summary should be compiled by the manager in charge of AAR and communicated to the project team and other stakeholders who can benefit from it. Timeliness of this communication is important because the participants want to see that the effort put into the AAR has been valued and benefits the organization overall as early as possible.

A template such as the one below can be used for both formal and informal AAR.