Dave Whipp via RT wrote: > Matt Diephouse wrote: > >>There's no real point in having a plan if you don't follow it, > > > That sounds a bit naive. The benefit of a plan is primarily in the act > of making it (it forces you to think about what you want to do). The > secondary benefit comes when you track how actual progress deviates from > the plan: this lets you think about how/why your plan wasn't accurate. > > Following a plan gives very little benefit. If the plan is accurate, > then people will naturally follow it, without needing to be told. They > may follow "priorities" (which may derived from the act of planning), > but that's a subtly different thing. > > > Dave. > >
It's nice to see so many professional project managers signing up :-) -- Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ "There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. It is 'dead'." -- Jack Cohen
