Killed by Planning is something you should definitely avoid. Don't turn your startup into an organization where everything needs to be outlined in pages long d

Killed by Planning is something you should definitely avoid. Don't turn your startup into an organization where everything needs to be outlined in pages long documents. What you describe as planning is something I would call the (functional) design phase of your products and services. My main reasons (as an architectect) to ask (business/product) people for a planning like that is that a) they will think more thorough about what they actually want to do (which is never what they told you yesterday), b) they write down things so that the development team has a plan to turn into a concrete project and c) do some form of short to medium term commitment to these plans. The latter also means responsibility. S.