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Hi Jerry! Thanks for the kind words about the posts. (And I hear you about being shocked with how long we've been doing this; I started my career in 1982, so I'm just a year or two behind you. Yikes!) I'm glad that you've found the material useful. Please feel free to snip parts as required, and please point people back to my substack if you could, too. Finally, good luck on the new project. Communicating requirements, constraints, KPPs, etc up front--and getting written buy-in from the stakeholders on these things--is one of the secrets to project success for sure. Cheers!

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Hi Mark, this whole series is phenomenal. I have been a construction project manager for 44 years (I can’t believe I’m saying that). I have been formally trained and informally trained, ha ha. I am in a position now to pass along any wisdom that I have gained along to about 25 of our project managers. This is so clear and concise and accurate and perfect that I’m going to snip parts of it and pass it along to them. I’m also going to use it on the next project that I am working on which is increasing the scope of the emergency power in an ambulatory surgery center. The reason that this is being added is because the end users state they have they were not aware that the cooling system would go down under a loss of power. Since I was the original project manager as well, I could argue that that was always the original program and intent for the project. On the other hand, we did not apparently do an adequate job of ensuring everyone was clear on that and documenting that direction. So lesson learned and we will use this format moving forward. Thanks!

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