Project Planning, Scheduling, and Control, Sixth Edition: The Ultimate Hands-On Guide to Bringing Projects in On Time and On Budget, 6th Edition

CHAPTER 8

Implementation Planning

We are now ready to discuss detailed implementation planning, Steps 6 to 8 of The Lewis Method. These steps are shown in Figure 8.1.

Figure 8.1 Steps 6 to 8 of The Lewis Method

In the previous chapter, I wrote that people are inclined to jump from Step 1 of my model down to Step 9. When I can convince them not to skip the definition phase, they then want to jump from Step 2 to Step 6. They tend to think of planning as detailed planning, omitting strategy from their thinking altogether.

In fact, I still find many ...