Ask someone after they’ve finished a project what they would do differently.
The answers tend to be similar.
A better understanding of costs earlier on; tracking changes properly as the project moved forward and realising a bit too late where things were heading financially.
It’s rarely about scale or ambition but instead, what visibility you maintain throughout the build.
Most decisions made during a project are reasonable at the time. The difficulty is not seeing how those decisions connect until much later.
Looking back, the information was there in pieces, it just wasn’t joined up in a way that made it useful.
That’s usually where the frustration comes from.
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