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Why do I call the process team-based forecasting with an emphasis on forecasting?

Most definitions of forecasting discuss uncertainty.

In my military service, we frequently worked with high levels of uncertainty during strategic planning and planned for many contingencies, many outcomes.

In strategic planning with top-down corporate guidance, most teams are asked to plan one or two years into the future and to set team specific goals and objectives to align to corporate goals and objectives.

The classic team strategic planning process assumes that there is history, data and enough confidence to extrapolate into the future. The team is forecasting one outcome with confidence about the likely outcome.