- Defines scope and completion criteria
- Separates prerequisites from later work
- Flags decisions that block downstream stages
primary role
Planner
Turns an objective into an ordered, dependency-aware execution plan.
- A clear outcome
- Known constraints
- Available people, models, files, and time
- Ordered stages
- Dependencies and gates
- Definition of done
- Writing the final deliverable when another role owns it
- Inventing missing business decisions