The Best Planning Process doesn’t exist. But the best planning process for your team does — if you’re willing to make trade-offs. Here’s a look at how Coda balanced bottoms-up reflection, top-down strategy, and bottoms-up planning. — This post is also viewable as a Coda doc. For a Product Manager like me, planning is one of the most important rituals: it’s where difficult trade-offs are made, key conflicts get resolved, and clarity of focus emerges.