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Delivery plans & milestones

A plan is a bet with checkpoints. Prefer milestones tied to demos or decisions over Gantt vanity.

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Milestone map

Each milestone = something visible (demo, migration complete, flag on). Dates are hypotheses.

  • Kickoff / aligned scope
  • Thin vertical slice working
  • Hardening / test gate
  • Launch / handoff
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Create 4–6 milestones with exit criteria for each.

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Chapter learning outcomes
  • Milestones
  • Dependencies
  • Buffers
  • Critical path intuition

Clear these before you leave

Side quest

Buffer honesty

Add explicit buffer where uncertainty is high. Tell stakeholders why.