The 1-page rule: a plan that doesn’t fit on a single page might be a lot of things, but it’s not a plan.

@Daojoan just the list of documents used to plan D-Day is 14 pages long. I appreciate the push toward lean planning, and few plans are as large as Operation Overlord, but hard and fast rules can make things just as cumbersome as overkill.

https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/research/subject-guides/pdf/dday-planning-overlord.pdf