[snk]

Planning is very useful even though things never go according to plan, honest.

[LtWorf]

Also who writes the plan is completely disconnected from reality, so the plan is completely useless.

[CraigJPerry]

The context of this conversation is the actions of a senior developer. If the senior developer allows someone else to write the plan in isolation (thus allowing a completely useless plan to be devised), then they’re by definition of the senior role, not a senior developer, right?

A senior developer is not a passive position.