Purpose

The Plan phase translates the project charter into actionable work. It covers everything from high-level vision and roadmap down to individual user stories, estimation, and sprint planning.

Skills

Product Vision

/project-management-product-vision <project>

Defines the product vision statement, target users, key differentiators, and success metrics. Provides the north star for all planning decisions.

Output: Vision statement, target audience, value proposition, success metrics → .singularskills/project-management/<project>/01-plan.md

Roadmap

/project-management-roadmap <project>

Creates a time-boxed roadmap with milestones, themes, and deliverables. Balances near-term commitments with longer-term direction.

Output: Roadmap with milestones, themes, dependencies, and timeline → .singularskills/project-management/<project>/01-plan.md

Backlog Creation

/project-management-backlog-creation <project>

Builds the initial product backlog from the roadmap and vision. Prioritizes items using value-effort analysis and organizes them into themes.

Output: Prioritized product backlog, theme groupings, priority rationale → .singularskills/project-management/<project>/01-plan.md

User Stories

/project-management-user-stories <project>

Writes user stories with acceptance criteria following the "As a... I want... So that..." format. Includes edge cases and technical considerations.

Output: User stories with acceptance criteria, edge cases → .singularskills/project-management/<project>/01-plan.md

Story Mapping

/project-management-story-mapping <project>

Organizes user stories into a story map — activities across the top, user tasks below, with walking skeleton and incremental slices.

Output: Story map, walking skeleton, release slices → .singularskills/project-management/<project>/01-plan.md

Estimation

/project-management-estimation <project>

Facilitates story point estimation using relative sizing. Provides reference stories, handles uncertainty, and flags items needing spikes.

Output: Story point estimates, reference stories, spike recommendations → .singularskills/project-management/<project>/01-plan.md

Sprint Planning

/project-management-sprint-planning <project>

Plans the upcoming sprint — selects backlog items based on capacity, defines the sprint goal, and breaks stories into tasks.

Output: Sprint backlog, sprint goal, task breakdown, capacity allocation → .singularskills/project-management/<project>/01-plan.md

Next Phase

NextSprint

After Plan, proceed to Sprint to execute the sprint with daily standups, goal tracking, and blocker resolution.

Phase 1: Plan