CHAPTER 3Project Planning Essentials
Measure twice, cut once.
—Carpentry maxim
With projects running under ever-shrinking budgets and deadlines, many project management environments have become a madhouse of multitasking. Unfortunately, the project management equivalent of texting while driving does not double efficiency, and cutting corners to speed up projects often hurts more than it helps. The good news is that, like chopping wood with a well-sharpened axe, many projects today run extremely efficiently when care is taken to plan them properly.
This chapter covers best practice planning skills, from rolling wave planning and progressive elaboration to the project baseline and lessons-learned databases. For the key skill of preplanning (i.e., ...
