High-Level Planning

Purpose

• Turn the structured outputs from Project Intake & Charter into a consultant-quality high-level plan that is sufficient to: select a delivery approach, identify major milestones, surface critical dependencies and resource needs, and enable a subsequent detailed planning step.
• This skill intentionally avoids fine-grained scheduling, task-level breakdowns, or precise cost estimates.

Scope: What this skill does and does not do

• This skill WILL:
  • Produce a plan_high_level that contains phases, milestones, and acceptance criteria
  • Provide a high-level estimate expressed as ranges or T-shirt sizes (S/M/L)
  • Identify major dependencies, constraints, and resource needs
  • Update risks and assumptions based on planning analysis
  • Mark readiness for detailed planning (or escalate if blocking unknowns exist)