{
  "title": "Project retrospective survey",
  "questions": [
    "What helped this project move forward?",
    "Where did coordination break down?",
    "What single practice should the next project change?",
    "Which dependency was discovered later than expected?",
    "What early check would have prevented repeated work?"
  ],
  "question_notes": [
    "Identify a practice or coordination condition worth retaining on later projects. Compare it with the actual project record before attributing delivery progress to that factor.",
    "Locate the handoff or decision point where coordination failed, including who needed what context. Investigate the process without converting the answer into a personal blame rating.",
    "Choose one feasible practice to change and define where it would apply next time. A suggested improvement remains a hypothesis until tested in another project.",
    "Find a dependency revealed after planning decisions had been made. Improve early discovery or notification while distinguishing unforeseeable changes from information that was available earlier.",
    "Identify a check that could expose a repeated-work risk before execution. Validate it against the project sequence rather than claim hindsight proves it would have prevented failure."
  ],
  "answer_guidance": [
    {
      "question": 1,
      "format": "Short open text",
      "reason": "Let people explain the experience in their own words. Review this answer for: what helped this project move forward.",
      "optional": true
    },
    {
      "question": 2,
      "format": "Short open text",
      "reason": "Let people explain the experience in their own words. Review this answer for: where did coordination break down.",
      "optional": true
    },
    {
      "question": 3,
      "format": "Short open text",
      "reason": "Let people explain the experience in their own words. Review this answer for: what single practice should the next project change.",
      "optional": true
    },
    {
      "question": 4,
      "format": "Short open text",
      "reason": "Let people explain the experience in their own words. Review this answer for: which dependency was discovered later than expected.",
      "optional": true
    },
    {
      "question": 5,
      "format": "Short open text",
      "reason": "Let people explain the experience in their own words. Review this answer for: what early check would have prevented repeated work.",
      "optional": true
    }
  ],
  "respondent_instruction": "If nothing was unclear or difficult, say so. Skip questions about steps you did not experience; use not applicable where appropriate.",
  "note": "Examples to adapt. Not a validated instrument."
}