Short excerpt from a YouTube discussion (William Doyle MRICS) arguing that true project management focuses on influencing future outcomes rather than mere paperwork. Speakers debate the purpose of records: one urges capturing records in useful ways that feed back into project processes for improvement; the other notes records have traditionally been kept for health & safety, quality assurance, insurance and robust audit trails.
Project management is about influencing what hasn't yet happened. Everything else is just administration.
So, you know, are we.
Are we administering the records for the sake of doing records in case we have a problem? How miserable is that? You know, how about we. How about we capture them all in a really good way and then actually feed that back into our project management processes for the better?
Going back to the very start of the conversation about why it's always been done, I think for a lot of those reasons, it's been done for either health and safety, for quality assurance, venture insurance, it's been very important to have an audit, a robust audit trail.
Yeah.
That shows we built this thing safely. We built it to the required quality and specification. And you've got that.
