ABSTRACT
Welcome to the world of project management for planners. Many prac ticing planners believe that the final planning product justifies the means. If, in a planner's mind, the public could be better served by extending the deadline for a comprehensive plan six more months, then the decision is simple: extend the deadline six more months. At times planners think, "If I could just get the Board of County Commissioners to agree to hire three more planners, then I could do the job right" and "If we could just get the new geographic information system (GIS) online before we started on the land use inventory, we could do a qual ity plan."
