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Plan Work

Plans should include:

  • clear objective and scope
  • risk-ordered execution
  • explicit dependencies
  • acceptance and exit criteria
  • evidence logging checkpoints

Effort sizing

Route to the correct scale by plan lifecycle stage — see effort-scales.yaml.

Stage Scale Skill
Gap analysis, remediation draft, sprint/Jira sizing Wall-clock T-shirt (Trivial / Small / Medium / Large) remediation-plan
Active WIP execution, progress burn-down Fibonacci (1–13) + *.effort.json plan-effort-estimate

Planning phase — size tasks for human team capacity and stakeholder timelines. Decisions that block work are tracked separately (not as effort).

Execution phase — when the plan goes WIP, create a *.effort.json sidecar beside the plan markdown, re-size steps with Fibonacci points, and run summarize-effort.mjs for deterministic progress totals. Use the indicative mapping in the taxonomy as a starting point only — re-size for AI-assisted delivery context.

Status presentation follows plan-status.yaml.