Why your planning should not reside in the head of just one colleague

Who doesn’t know the situation? There’s always that one colleague who knows exactly:

- Who is working on what
- Which deadline really matters
- What’s going to happen tomorrow

Useful, until that same colleague suddenly becomes unavailable. That’s when you realise how vulnerable a team is when planning lives in just one head.

That feeling of “it’s all going fine” often only changes when someone drops out. Then it becomes clear that a lot of implicit knowledge, the kind someone carries in their head, is not easily transferable.

That’s why combining personal knowledge with structured planning isn’t just a handy organisational trick, but a strategic necessity.