Part 7. Embracing change

General Dwight D. Eisenhower said, “The plan is useless; it’s the planning that is important.” Eisenhower knew that you could plan all that you wanted to, but something could and would still go wrong. It was more important to be able to react and re-plan than it was to lay out the initial plan.

This is not to say we do not create an initial plan in an agile environment, but to say we understand that all possible scenarios cannot be anticipated and we must have a process that allows us to triage issues and recover. We cannot lament how the original plan did not work, but instead we must be able to re-plan and continue to pursue success.

In the following three chapters we will discuss adapting to change, learning as we go, and ensuring successful delivery of our project along the way.