In the process of strategic planning the strategy of development as well as applicationsrealizing it are formulated. Planning is the basis for preparing and taking decisionsreferring to principles, trends and the pace of far-reaching development. Elaboration ofthe strategy of regional development management is the undertaking of large scalecomplexity. It comprises decisions referring to development perspectives, formulatingpurposes and determining (choice) the methods of their realization, analysis of social andpolitical conditions, collecting and processing the information. Conditioning of definingthe strategy has a versatile character. None of the above-mentioned areas can be regardedas less important.The purpose of this study is to attempt to identify basic problems of forming the strategyof regional development management.The study contains a brief description of planning regional development on the basisof the literature of the subject, and then empirical verification of the accepted hypothesis.Considerations and based upon them conclusions can be useful in working out thestrategy of regional development management.