“It costs approximately 10 times more to fix the problem at each later stage of the project” – Strategic Project Management made Simple , Terry Schmidt So, spend sufficient time to plan to avoid a mistake which will cost you 10 times at each later stage. I have heard many people say, “no time to plan” and they end up spending their time and money to do the corrections for the mistakes which could have been avoided. Either spend sufficient time to plan your project or end up spending 10 times of the same time and money to fix the problem. Choice is yours!!!