Traction Heroes Planning
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May 18, 2025 Planning is essential for navigating complex projects, often overshadowed by a bias for immediate action. The hosts advocate for redefining planning from a bureaucratic task to an experimental approach, emphasizing adaptability and iterative learning. They tackle the dangers of overly optimistic project estimates, revealing how unrealistic expectations may lead to failure. Effective planning is both an art and a science, requiring honesty and collaboration. Ultimately, strategic preparation is crucial for achieving streamlined processes and successful outcomes.
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Planning Is Experimentation
- Planning is often undervalued because it looks like passive thinking, not active doing.
- Good planning involves experimentation and learning from failure, turning plans into reliable guides.
IT Projects Often Fail Optimism
- Information technology projects have the poorest records for being on time, on budget, and meeting forecasts.
- Failures are mostly due to overly optimistic estimates rather than poor execution.
Planning Is Active Alignment
- Planning is an active process that aligns teams toward shared goals, not just a static document.
- The plan is a tool to adapt and align direction rather than something rigid to follow exactly.
