The Importance of Project Planning 65 some level and contribute to poor planning and underperforming projects. Multi-Project Systems Everything I have discussed so far about project planning has been in the context of one project. This is useful when learning the funda- mentals of project management, but most organizations have many projects to manage, and resources are working across multiple proj- ects. This creates problems for your project, the plan for which was probably created without considering the full impact of executing projects in a dynamic matrix organization. The first reality is other project plans have different levels of detail; some are more detailed, others more general. Project plans and actual information collected against these projects is often inconsistent and not aggregated into a central project system that can evaluate the resource utilization and resource demands in the coming days and weeks. Resource conflicts