Out of all of the phases of the a project’s life cycle, the planning phase is the most important. The professor gave us a very important saying in his lecture: “If you fail to plan, then you plan to fail.” This illustrates how important the planning phases. Making a mistake early on in the project cycle, will mostly likely have a stronger negative impact than a mistake made towards the end of the project. If you plan well and prepare for possible contingencies, the more likely that the project will become successful because the planning stage is when you brainstorm on how to address all of the possible obstacles that you can come across during any of the other stages. The amount of effort you put into planning can save you a lot of stress and time later on because you are more prepared to deal with the rest of the project, and it makes you more confident about what you are doing. The least important phase in the cycle is the controlling phase because, at this point, you already have achieve your result. This means that you did achieve something, so all you have to do is maintain it. You know that your project did lead to a success because it yielded a good result. The control phase is about maintaining what you already have, rather than designing something and bringing it to fruition. The control phase is the least important because it won’t require as much effort because you are towards the end of the project. When you are at the beginning of your project, you have a lot more things to worry about and work on.