[steverb]

Am I misunderstanding the article, or is it basically just describing sprint planning?

I was set to be annoyed by the article, since it seems to me that a lot of PM practices put way more emphasis on planning to do things, versus actually doing them, but after reading it it just seemed like a slightly modified version of what most teams I have worked on do for sprint planning.

Which makes me feel like I missed something in the article. Perhaps it is geared towards PMs who don't have any experience or appreciation for "agile" methods?

[rawgabbit]

The article is explaining how old school waterfall worked in practice. As another commenter noted Moltke the Elder noted that no plan survives the initial battle. What he meant is that planning has to be constantly revised. Moltke the Elder won the Franco Prussian war for the Kaiser which led to the formation of modern Germany. Agile and all of its modern variants are nothing new.