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Thoughts on Project Planning

by Dave Tufts - December 14, 2005 / 11:39pm View more articles

A battle was never won according to plan and a battle was never won without a plan.
- Napoleon

In 1999, a New Zealand Habitat for Humanity chapter built a house, from scratch, in 3 hours and 26 minutes, after spending 14 months planning the project. 0.03% of their time was spent in execution, 99.97% of their time, planning.

Chris Hardwick also had a plan when he solved a Rubik's Cube blindfolded in 18.50 seconds. He spent 99.8% of his time planning his solution by staring at, and memorizing, the cube for 1 hour and 54 minutes. The remaining 0.2% of his time was spent executing the plan.

Do yourself a favor, spend just a little more time planning your next project.
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by Fred LeBlanc   #
on December 15, 2005 / 9:18am
It's interesting how something originally rated as 'lame' (the Rubik's Cube kid) is suddenly cool and purposeful. The swing of social acceptance has always been baffling to me.

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