In the early years of my career as an electrical engineer in Australia in the mid-90s, I read an article in Engineers Australia about project management in engineering. I was very impressed with the author's methodical explanation about how effective project management should be conducted. He described the simplicity and logic of his approach, which, I was delighted to discover, was similar to my project management process. So I concluded I must have been doing the right thing, which was encouraging for a young migrant engineer. At the time I had been sending very detailed designs to contractors to tender for installations, presuming that this was standard practice. I had not appreciated the prevalent practice of submitting only basic designs "just for quoting" purposes to contractors, expecting them to quote on such a superficial basis.
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