Brainstorming

Planning, ideation, problem decomposition, and trade-off analysis for software projects. Produces actionable decisions with documented rationale.

When to Use

• Planning a new feature or system
• Evaluating multiple implementation approaches
• Making technology or architecture decisions
• Decomposing a complex problem into smaller tasks
• User asks "how should we approach X?" or "what are the options for Y?"

Don't use for:

• Trivial changes (one-line fixes, obvious implementations)
• Pure code review (use critical-partner)
• Validating or stress-testing a decision already made (use critical-partner)
• Debugging (use systematic-debugging)