The NEC jigsaw....

I recently read a comment telling how somebody had assembled all of the NEC pieces over time and had now understood how they all fit together. To me, that's a great way of thinking about NEC. There's no cross-referencing in an NEC Contract so you have to read it cover to cover and then appreciate how the pieces interact. NEC isn't exactly a 2 piece jigsaw, neither is it a 1000 piece work of complexity. Get your head around the key processes, learn how they work together, then you will see how the likes of early warnings have hardly any interaction with compensation events, despite users' perceptions, and so on.