5The Development Plan
This chapter describes what plans are, why plans are needed, what a balanced plan is, and how a balanced plan will help your team. It also discusses the TSPi support tool and explains how to use it to plan and track your work. After describing the rationale for planning and the overall planning approach, the chapter walks you through the steps of the PLAN1 script. This is followed by a discussion of how to track progress against your plan. The final section describes quality planning and quality measures and discusses how they can help you to do consistently high-quality work.
5.1 The Need for Planning
Depending on the context, plans can be simple or complex. The complexity of a plan is governed largely by the complexity ...
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