ABSTRACT
Planning is the process of determining what we intend to do and how we propose to get it done. Systematic planning, then, is doing this planning in an orderly, rational, organized, and methodical systematic way. By its nature, planning involves a sequence of activities. Scientific management sets standards, measures or establishes norms, and/or sets best-practice procedures, and then, it measures the performance and takes corrective action when that performance is outside the acceptable limits of the standards. Systematic planning's development is ongoing. It is very much like the movement of scientific management during the last century, which took a long time to be understood and accepted. Today, those concepts of tooling-up to produce procedures to guide recurring activities are being extended into the largely mental process of planning. With systematic planning, we are able to provide working models for the planning of projects well before we know what the specific project even is.
