by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
I emphasize fundamentals in my work. One such fundamental is the old cliche about planning and working (see title). I find it still applies\u2014even with “new” methods like Agile.<\/strong><\/p>\n Plan your work, work your plan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I heard that a lot in the 1980s. I find it to be one of those things that are just true or “no duh.” If you pour water on something, that thing will be wet.<\/p>\n “But,” some say these days and the past 15 years, “we are Agile, we don’t plan.”<\/p>\n The Agile Manifesto states, “We value responding to change over following a plan.”<\/p>\n That statement is itself a plan. The plan is to have a plan, but be ready for change and respond to those changes. The plan is to be flexible or agile.<\/p>\n The “work your plan” part of Agile is to actually respond to change. Don’t just say you will respond to change, respond.<\/p>\n Plan your work, work your plan. Still true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips I emphasize fundamentals in my work. One such fundamental is the old cliche about planning and working (see title). I find it still applies\u2014even with “new” methods like Agile. Plan your work, work your plan I heard that a lot in the 1980s. I find it to be one of those things […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,17,30,9],"tags":[214,139,152,132,187],"class_list":["post-2196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agility","category-culture","category-lifecycle","category-management","tag-agility","tag-culture","tag-lifecycle","tag-management","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2197,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions\/2197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}