Meyers was also able to balance planning with a sense of flexibility and adaptability every step of the way. There is always some measure of chaos experienced in any project. Better to experience it early and address those demands than having to retrace steps later in the project. You have to be able to envision your goal and think backwards otherwise called backward chaining. If you take things as they come, that is called forward chaining.
People love to make mistakes.
So make them early in the life of your project. Fulfillment is the high end of the continuum that has as its opposite end despair. Fulfillment increases as people know why things are done. Success is the high end of a continuum that has as its opposite failure. Success is knowing how things are done.