Cytokinesis

A few days back I was reading with my daughter about human cells. As we all know human cells divide themselves and keeps on increasing their number. However, I was amazed to find the precision and the planning from mother nature that goes into a cell division.

A human liver cell for example, divides itself in around 22 hours.

-The first stage is called interphase that takes around 21 hours. During this phase the cell grows (9 hours), then copies the DNA (10 hours) and finally prepares for the division (2 hours)
-The second stage is the Mitosis that takes 1 hour during which the cell divides.
-The third stage is the Cytokinesis that completes the cell division

I was wondering when nature takes so much time to plan before executing the plan (in this case around 21 hours to plan and 1 hour to execute), why we cannot take a lesson and provide the importance to plan during the typical software project development. Just imagine billions of cells in the human body continuously takes around 96% of the time in planning and 4% time in executing the plan with practically zero error rate.

Most of the time the important stakeholders in a project spends exactly the opposite % of time in planning and executing the project as compared to mother nature. May be that's the answer to more than 96% failed project in terms of meeting their original needs