Why the Best Lessons Learned Are Collected Mid-Project
End-of-project workshops relied on memory and arrived too late to help the current team.
End-of-project workshops relied on memory and arrived too late to help the current team.
Client approvals sat outside the programme even when they controlled release of major packages.
Congested access increased travel time, damaged materials and obscured emerging hazards.
Package dates reflected contract milestones but not design release, samples or factory capacity.
Drawings and meetings could not resolve competing expectations for a complex interface.
Daily crane conflicts were treated as isolated logistics problems.
Recurring defects were closed individually without identifying the repeated cause.
Reported dates were repeatedly moved without explaining what had changed.
The baseline treated normal seasonal weather as an unexpected event.
Two systems contained different dates and both were described as authoritative.