During these readings, I was not surprised by the lack of effective planning in technology industry especially to do with software development, because I have read about this for some other courses. But what I was tickled to learn which I did not know was that more projects fail for running overtime than for running over budget. There seems to be a culture of "just do it" in the technology field with a minority of companies that weave an effective "let's plan it!" into the project. But we should all know by now that spending ten percent of our project time making a blueprint for a house will save use ten times the reworking pain when the home does not meet homebuyer's requirements or construction code, heck the chimney went in the bathroom! Doers have a reputation for being great at doing, but must be convinced that planning now is not a waste of time, but a time saver later when the work does not have to be reworked. My friend is experiencing this right now, because no one thought the project warranted a plan. Now, team members are learning that they have very different ideas about the basic goals of the project and how it is supposed to look. Rather than defining goals, they have been assigned tasks and milestones (all well and good), but when they reach those milestones, the manager discovers the work is not what was desired and the vicious cycle continues.
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