Jim Highsmith wrote an insightful blog post about how waterfall project management is about "plan and do" whereas agile is about "envision and explore." This weekend I was working on a video statistics system for Tutr.tv. It ended up being another one of those ah-ha moments of why agile processes are so brilliantly effective and how "envision and explore" produces better results faster than the old "plan and do."

He who fails to plan, plans to fail

A journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step. But if you don't plan properly you may end up 2,000 miles from where you wanted to go.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.