Can a Version Control System Help in Project Planning?

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:00:00 -0400

I’ve written before about how my team at work has adopted a variant of the Mikado Method for software project planning. We started this in 2023 and have evolved the process a bit since then. Most notably, we’ve adopted a more strict process of prototyping during the planning phase. Where we originally only did a bit of spiking up front, we learned that our designs were better if the lead engineer actually built a “walking skeleton.” This code doesn’t have much error checking, there are no tests, and small bits may still be implemented as pseudocode in comments, but it makes it clear where parts of the system interface with one another and what each must provide.

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Can a Version Control System Help in Project Planning?