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The Resilient Plan

Planning when the ground keeps moving — change, disruption and the unexpected.

Most planning is taught as if the world holds still: a forecast meets a fixed workforce and the only question is how cleverly you match the two. Real operations don’t hold still — systems migrate, a big intake hits its leaving cliff, a strike or storm takes out half the floor, and last week’s forecast is already drifting. This paper is about the other kind of plan: the resilient one, built to bend with change rather than break against it.

Cover of the ccplanning.net white paper: The Resilient Plan

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What’s inside

  • The steady-state fallacy — why a plan that only works when nothing changes isn’t a plan
  • The change you choose: budgeting the go-live productivity dip (the J-curve)
  • The change that finds you: the attrition cohort cliff, and modelling by tenure
  • The change in the numbers: when to re-forecast, and when to hold your nerve
  • The change that hits you: the partial-workforce day, and triage by tier
  • Building resilience in: buffers, flex, playbooks and the planning rhythm

In the ccPlanning white-paper series. Pair it with Planning through a system migration, Planning for an attrition wave, Re-forecasting, and Planning for disruption.