I think that it is certainly sometimes crucial to go back to the planning phase in order to ensure the success of a project. Regardless of how well a project is planned out, sometimes obstacles and setbacks are unforeseeable. However, when going back to the planning phase, it is still important to stay as on schedule as possible and to hit necessary deadlines. In my capstone class we use gantt charts for scheduling. My capstone team had to re-evaluate our schedule due to delivery of materials taking longer than expected. We have strict deadlines in April for our demos so in order to stay on time with the critical path of our project, we re-did the Gantt chart to run certain things in parallel. Running things in parallel that were not originally planned to be in parallel is one way to still stay on schedule. Does anyone else have experience with other ways to still stay on schedule when having to go back to the planning stage?