Projects@Work - Why Teams Won’t Plan

It is an article of faith within the discipline of project management that good planning is important to success. We constantly quote pithy aphorisms such as “failing to plan is planning to fail” and “proper project planning prevents pathetically poor performance.”

Yet the fact remains that many projects still suffer from inadequate planning. When I ask experienced project managers to tell me why they hadn’t developed an adequate plan, they invariably mention one of the following reasons:

~ “There wasn’t enough time.” This idea is sometimes expressed as “there was pressure to get started on “real work.”

~ “This project was almost identical to an earlier project.

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