Preface
This is a book about planning software projects. We are writing it mostly for project managers—those who have to plan and track the correspondence of the planning with reality. We also are writing it for programmers and customers, who have a vital role to play in planning and developing software.
Planning is not about predicting the future. When you make a plan for developing a piece of software, development is not going to go like that. Not ever. Your customers wouldn't even be happy if it did, because by the time the software gets there, the customers don't want what was planned; they want something different.
Like so many, we enjoy Eisenhower's quotation: "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning ...
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