Overplanning

Thanks to all your feedbacks.
Finally resuming the various posts, I think that it's needed to breakdown activities to a manageable level and to a level where you can create bottom-up cost estimate and use it as a warning line between good planning and over planning.
Obviously the planning costs have to be balanced to project budget.
Moreover I agree with James when he said that it's fine for work package owners to maintain a more detailed activity list than what's in the project schedule as long they can relate their progress to the project schedule.

I hope that I have summarized well the topic.

I don't agree at all Pankaj. I agree that plan & control is necessary, but plan & control too much can lead to concentrate too much on control and "paralyze" execution activites.

Hi Paolo

Monitoring and control doesn't mean to slow down the execution. Planning is done to monitor the project with all available constraints. It is meant for proper and timely execution. If you are not doing it in that way then it is not planning. Control is no way to paralyse the execution, it is for on time execution. If you don't plan & monitor, your schedule and cost will never be under control in your project. Hope you understand.

Hi Pankaj,
obviosuly I don't say to don't plan or monitor, I deeply believe that planning and monitoring is indispensable to have project under control, I only said that if you fall in the pitfall of overplanning the execution could be paralyzed.
I don't agree only with the part of your statement where you say: "it is always better to plan & control as much as possible".

I believe that you mean with over planning if organisation is wasting time in making Plans and losing precious time of execution, monitoring and control. It can be considered as wrong planning.

Planning means you understand the objective, requirements, constraints(time, budget, quality, resources) of your project and you only subdivide work into manageable packages.