ABSTRACT
A rational, evidence-based planning process that seeks the best plan from among the countless options can be a time-consuming and expensive process. Sometimes what you need is a fast plan. Fast planning is
Fast planning is about getting as much out of the “Five By Two” process, or any other planning process, as quickly as you can. If your study took 506 days, would it have suffered a decline in quality if you had done it in 505 days? How about 504 days? Perhaps you see where this is headed. At what point, moving backward, would we say, “Stop, right there is when the solution was as good as it was going to get.” Virtually any planning process can be shortened, and the question is how best to do that. You’ll —nd some thoughts on that in this chapter.
