Classic Mistakes Enumerated

#18: Abandonment of planning under pressure. Projects make plans and then routinely abandon them when they run into schedule trouble (Humphrey 1989). The problem isn’t so much in abandoning the plan as in failing to create a substitute and then falling into code-and-fix mode instead. In Case Study 3-1, the team abandoned its plan after it missed its first delivery, and that’s typical. The result was that work after that point was uncoordinated and awkward–to the point that Jill even started working on a project for her old group part of the time and no one even knew it.

(Link: Classic Mistakes Enumerated)