# Methodology · Plan

> Before any work starts, one gate decides whether it starts at all.

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## Entries

- [Worth before work](https://banes-lab.com/disciplined-methodology/plan/worth-before-work.md): Before any work starts, one gate decides whether it starts at all.
- [The plan is a graph](https://banes-lab.com/disciplined-methodology/plan/the-flat-checklist.md): When you ask a model for a plan, it usually comes back as a flat list of about ten items, in no order that matters, with no gate between them, and with a…
- [Execute the template](https://banes-lab.com/disciplined-methodology/plan/execute-the-template.md): A plan in this method is produced by running a template against the task, as shown in draft, compare, restructure], rather than by writing a document that…
- [Ask where it appears](https://banes-lab.com/disciplined-methodology/plan/ask-where-it-appears.md): You decide what the work is for, as described in worth before work, while the shape of the work is left to the model.
- [When rules collide](https://banes-lab.com/disciplined-methodology/plan/when-rules-collide.md): Sometimes two rules meet on one line of code and disagree.