Planning with Tree

[placeholder] Body content for this entry will be written by the copy chat. The entry covers strategic planning with Tree: the mindset shift from list-shaped scoping to graph-shaped scoping, and the heuristics that make the transition easier.

Start with the artifacts that mean "done." Trace the prerequisites backward until every chain bottoms out at something already complete. Identify decision points where multiple approaches could lead to the same artifact. Prune the branches you don't commit to, leaving a record of the rejected paths.

The teams who plan this way ship more reliably than the teams who write a doc and translate it to tickets. The structural information stays visible from week zero of scoping through week ten of execution.