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title: What's your plan?
date: 2024-09-14
permalink: daily/2024/09/14/whats-your-plan
tags:
  - software-development
cta: d7eol
snippet: |
  Starting a new task? What's your plan?
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A question I ask before starting a task, whether I'm working solo or as part of a team is "What is your plan?".

How am I going to approach the task I'm about to start working on?

What information do I need?

What approach am I going to take and which am I not going to take?

What will some of the puzzle pieces be? Will I need a route, a Controller, a Service, a Command, a Value Object?

Asking these questions and making these initial decisions upfront greatly reduces my implementation time as I only need to focus on delivering what I've already planned.

And I can [capture these decisions in a README file][0] [or diagram][1], that's ideal.

[0]: {{site.url}}/archive/2023/11/09/readme-driven-development
[1]: {{site.url}}/daily/2024/09/04/diagram-driven-development