Phase 11 — Value and review

Every document this phase asks you to produce, on paper. Take it outside — you will not have signal, and you will have dirt on your hands.

Project review

Setting Out · Phase 11 — Value and review

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Score the finished garden against every point of your original brief

One row per requirement, in the order you wrote them in Phase 2. Score 2 met, 1 partly, 0 not met, B the brief was wrong. Evidence you could show someone, not an opinion.

Brief requirement	Score (2 / 1 / 0 / B)	Evidence

Final cost, everything in

Tools bought and hired, skip bins and tip fees, permit fees, delivery, the plants that died and were replaced, fuel, and your own labour at a notional rate. Then work the variance against the charter budget as a percentage.

Actual duration against the estimate

Elapsed weeks from the first demolition day to the closed defect list, not weeks you felt busy. Put the Phase 1 estimate beside it and state the variance.

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What you would do differently

Code each gap to one dominant cause — scope, site investigation, take-off, approvals, sequencing, supply, capability — and say where the lesson belongs.

The three things you got genuinely right

Specific enough to be an instruction next time. "The paving looks good" is useless; "ordering 8 per cent extra pavers" is not.

Project portfolio

Setting Out · Phase 11 — Value and review

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Upload the assembled portfolio

One PDF: the one-page summary at the front, then each phase in order, with the before and after photographs paired from the same position.

Where the assembled document lives

Folder, file name and format. Note the three copies while you are here — computer, external drive, and one somewhere else.

What you collected into it

Work in phase order: brief, site, approvals, design, documentation, money, build, handover, review. Name anything still missing.

The brief, in one sentence

What you asked this garden to do.

The approach

A paragraph. How you went about it — what you did yourself, what went to licensed trades, and the order you built in.

The result

What was built, with quantities. 62 m² of paving, 14 lineal metres of limestone retaining to 600 mm, six irrigation stations, 41 plants.

Final cost

The honest total, trades and materials included, measured against the budget you set in Phase 1.

What you learnt

Three things that worked and three you would change. Specific ones — "should have run the conduit before we paved" beats "plan better".