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I think they worded it correctly. Notice it doesn't say, "Responding to Change over Making a Plan." Your version is horribly ugly. Theirs is succinct and poetic
by nardi 13y ago
I think they worded it correctly. Notice it doesn't say, "Responding to Change over Making a Plan." Your version is horribly ugly. Theirs is succinct and poetic.
- fsloth 13y agoI agree that my version is horribly ugly :). However, if you are not going to Follow a Plan, and while you're at it, you are attempting to Eliminate Waste as per the lean thinking movement, one may quickly follow with the conclusion that plans that are not followed are wasteful, and therefore unnecessary. My experience has shown me that this is the interpretation people very often make. YMMV as always, though.
- nardi 13y agoPreferring to Respond to Change over Follow a Plan doesn't mean you never follow the plan. It means that when changing circumstances conflict with your plan, then you respond to the change rather than blindly follow your plan.
- ternaryoperator 13y agoI think what the Manifesto was targeting was "blindly" following a plan. In those days, reqs were drawn up, a design spec'd, a plan written out and there tended to be considerable resistance to changing the plan. That's what they were aiming at.