Conversations with Dale » planning http://cwd.dhemery.com about leading software development Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:21:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Planning http://cwd.dhemery.com/2004/07/planning/ http://cwd.dhemery.com/2004/07/planning/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2004 00:50:00 +0000 dale http://cwd.dhemery.com/2004/07/15/planning/ On the Agile Project Management mailing list, in the midst of an enthusiastic dialogue about the value of planning, Clarke Ching asked the clarifying and orienting question, “What is planning?”

My answer:


plan
  1. v. To select assumptions, expectations, constraints, intentions, and commitments to inform decisions about a course of action.
  2. n. A description of a set of assumptions, expectations, constraints, intentions, and commitments selected to inform decisions about a course of action.

Before Clarke asked, I didn’t know that that’s what I meant by planning. That qualifies the question as a good one.

[Update 4:55 PM: Added "intentions."]

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