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I only skimmed the article yet it it is ridden with weird takes on management. Let me give you an example. You go on touristic vacation. Most people would plan

I only skimmed the article yet it it is ridden with weird takes on management. Let me give you an example. You go on touristic vacation. Most people would plan the core sights to be seen and places to be visited, probably center all that around pre-booked places to crash for the night. This article sort of advocates shortening the plans to half a day plans, because you might to go a tad bit different route. Of course there are uncertainties and the longer the term, the more uncertainties. Knowing exactly how long a task takes is worthless if you do not know what and why you are building. Where does the itemized list with well-defined tasks for sprints come from? The longer term plan. Both are very relevant, but are tools used at different levels. Without long term plan Facebook could have ended up a dating app or blogging platform.

konschubert 4y ago
OT: My best travels have been those where I only ever planned one or two days ahead. Backpacking is great!
kqr 4y ago
Do most people really vacation that way? I like to have something to fall back to, like a rough set of things to do in any type of weather, but I can't imagine making that fallback plan a priority. The priority is always what I feel like in the moment, having experienced what I have just before. Most of the moments I remember come out of spontaneously visiting a graveyard or bookshop locals talk about, or taking a trip to the outskirts of town because they looked interesting from afar. Things I would never have thought to plan!
- friendzis 4y ago
  That is exactly my gripe with the article. There is nothing stopping you from spontaneously taking a trip to outskirts instead of downtown, just because you feel that to be a good decision at the moment. And yet your large scale plan to visit town A on day #3, town B on day #4 and be back at airport on day #5 is still valid. At least in my circles people do vacation like that - general macro plan with exact micro decision taken at the moment. Macro plan is there to give general shape and maybe put certain anchor points (hotels, flights in case of vacation). Just because you planned dinner in your macro plan does not make macro plans a bad tool in general like this article tries to portray.
beckingz 4y ago
Facebook tried both of those things.

konschubert 4y ago

OT: My best travels have been those where I only ever planned one or two days ahead. Backpacking is great!

kqr 4y ago

Do most people really vacation that way? I like to have something to fall back to, like a rough set of things to do in any type of weather, but I can't imagine making that fallback plan a priority. The priority is always what I feel like in the moment, having experienced what I have just before. Most of the moments I remember come out of spontaneously visiting a graveyard or bookshop locals talk about, or taking a trip to the outskirts of town because they looked interesting from afar. Things I would never have thought to plan!

friendzis 4y ago
That is exactly my gripe with the article. There is nothing stopping you from spontaneously taking a trip to outskirts instead of downtown, just because you feel that to be a good decision at the moment. And yet your large scale plan to visit town A on day #3, town B on day #4 and be back at airport on day #5 is still valid. At least in my circles people do vacation like that - general macro plan with exact micro decision taken at the moment. Macro plan is there to give general shape and maybe put certain anchor points (hotels, flights in case of vacation). Just because you planned dinner in your macro plan does not make macro plans a bad tool in general like this article tries to portray.

beckingz 4y ago

Facebook tried both of those things.