Quotes About Planning

20% on detailed planning (Their poor throughput and high lead times were misattributed to faulty estimation, and so, hoping to get a better answer, they were asked to estimate the work in greater detail.)

You're right that you can't achieve the strategic until you've mastered the tactical,

When you spend all your time firefighting, there's little time or energy left for planning.

How can we manage production if we don't know what the demand, priorities, status of work in process, and resource availability are?

You just want a list of organizational commitments for our key resources, with a one-liner on what they're working on and how long it will take.

want each group to write down every change they're planning, one change per index card. I want three pieces of information: who is planning the change, the system being changed, and a one-sentence summary.

How can we manage production if we don't know what the demand, priorities, status of work in process, and resource availability are? Suddenly, I'm kicking myself that I didn't ask these questions on my first day.

makes me angry when we need to make some heroic, diving catch because of someone else's lack of planning.

Chuck Rossi, Director of Release Engineering at Facebook, described, "All the code supporting every feature we're planning to launch over the next six months has already been deployed onto our production servers. All we need to do is turn it on.

Unplanned work is what prevents you from doing it. Like matter and antimatter, in the presence of unplanned work, all planned work ignites with incandescent fury, incinerating everything around it. Like Phoenix.

A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow

one of the Library's mottos was borrowed directly from the great military thinker Clausewitz: no strategy ever survived contact with the enemy. Or, in the vernacular, Things Will Go Wrong. Be Prepared.

I plan for the worst," Silver said. "That way, at least I'm dressed for the occasion.

Practicality is a great help when it comes to getting things achieved," Irene retorted. "If I were going on a heroic quest, I'd probably start off by making a list of things I'd need on the journey. Including some books to read during the dull bits.

Irene hated trusting to luck. It was no substitute for good planning and careful preparation.

Panic is the antithesis to good organization. Panic is messy. I am against panic on a point of principle.

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.

People who have nothing much in mind for next week speak instead about the next century or millennium.

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

Strategy is something that emerges from reality, while tactics might be chosen.

Long-term solutions are more attractive and cause much less controversy than short-term solutions, which will affect people who are still alive and voting.

Go brush your teeth, comb your hair, put on dry clothes, and get the guns. We're going to Wal-Mart

How go the preparations for the wedding?" "Very well. How goes the world domination?" "It has its moments.