Plan to Change Your Plan…Collaboratively
February 2nd, 2005 by HalThe various project worlds can learn from each other. While designing and constructing buildings is different from designing and coding software, planning and managing the projects is often more alike than not. In Johanna Rothman's post Invest in the Design of Your Project Every Day, she encourages us to be ready to change the plan each day.
We've all see the phenomenon that as soon as you've scheduled the project, the schedule is out of date. If you plan to invest in replanning and rescheduling, that doesn't matter.
Note: Johanna is not saying change your goals or your overall promise to the customer. She's also not encouraging that we make changes in a vacuum. The key is to be responsible…to your customer, to other members of the team, and to yourself.
One-time planning can't anticipate ALL of what we must deal with to succeed with our projects. Neither will solo-planning. So, do as Johanna suggests, build-in regular cycles for replanning, and do it collaboratively.
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