"Would you tell me, please which way I ought to go from here?
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
'I don't much care,' said Alice.
'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
'So long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.
'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat"
- Lewis Carrol from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
When we have NO plans, NO defined Capabilities, NO Measures of Need Effectiveness or Performance, NO steering target, NO estimates of the effort, duration, and cost to reach that target, NO feedback needed to take corrective or preventive actions to Stay the Course, we're going to pretty much end up somewhere. But is that somewhere, the where we needed to be in exchange for that cost and schedule and the needed capabilities the customer has paid for?
