The document discusses planning practices for software projects. It recommends understanding the project scope, involving stakeholders, recognizing planning is iterative, estimating based on known information, considering risk, being realistic, adjusting detail over time, defining quality and change management, and tracking plans. It also suggests asking key questions during initiation like purpose, tasks, timeline, responsibilities, locations, and resource needs. The practices include reassessing scope, risks, functions, and infrastructure to create a coarse plan with increments, schedule, and delivery dates, then making a detailed first increment plan and tracking progress.