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In this brief excerpt from William Doyle MRICS's YouTube video, two speakers debate the role of record‑keeping in project management. Speaker A argues that project management should be about shaping future outcomes, not merely maintaining records for their own sake, and suggests that data should be captured in a way that feeds back into the management process to add value. Speaker B counters by recalling why detailed record‑keeping and audit trails have traditionally been essential—providing proof of health and safety compliance, quality assurance, and engineering assurance, thereby demonstrating that a project was built safely and to specification.
