Mechanisms and methods that will improve performance will also be explored, and the knowledge generated from sharing lessons learned can be leveraged to identify these mechanisms and methods. All parties involved with contract management and contract performance must successively share lessons learned with relevant quality, method, or process stakeholders who are impacted by the suggested improvements. Sharing lessons learned creates a knowledge chain effect, which is the group process of continually imparting acquired expertise to others so that they too can acquire and share expertise. A continuous improvement process for the sharing of lessons learned and improvement opportunities is laid out in Section 7-10, Continuous Improvement.