Opportunity framing
Write a one-page brief with the user, painful workflow, and kill criteria.
The workflow checklist
Follow the steps in order. Clear gates keep you honest.
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Validation
Run interviews or smoke tests against an explicit kill threshold.
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Product definition
Freeze the launch line, non-goals, success metric, and FAQ.
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Technical design
Resolve data, contracts, migration, rollback, and observability before code.
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Decomposition
Split work into agent-shaped tasks with one verification path each.
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Implementation
Dispatch bounded work orders and require a run report from every task.
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Review and launch
Clear deterministic checks, second-agent review, spec trace, and walkthrough.
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Post-ship iteration
Write the first-week note and decide keep, change, or kill.