David Allen's "Natural Planning Model" is, like the [[GTD Workflow]] itself, a 5 step process. 1. Define purpose & principles 1. Purpose defines success, creates decision-making criteria, opens up possible alternative paths 2. Principles define the rules of the road, "I'd let you have free reign as long as you...", finish that sentence & those are the principles of the project 2. Outcome visioning 1. Provides the [[Focus]] for what done 2. Defines success (also? I guess and overlap) 3. Brainstorming 1. All the things you'd expect, on this, such as 1. [[Quantity Makes Quality]] 2. [[Creative Process Divergence then Convergence]] 4. Organizing 1. Identify components, sub-components, sequences of events and/or [[Priorities]] 5. Identifying [[Next Action]]s 1. Next actions for scope execution 2. If necessary, next action for the _planning_ process, too > A project is sufficiently planned for implementation when every next-action step has been decided on every from that can actually be moved on without some other component's having to be completed first. - David Allen He claims this is our brain's _natural_ planning process, and that it's not commonly done in the context of business planning. **** # More ## Source - [[Getting Things Done The Art of Stress-Free Productivity]] ## Related