Scoping and Planning Without Self-Deception

Syllabus

1. 1How to break work into meaningful scope
2. 2The difference between tasks and deliverables
3. 3Why milestones exist and how they fail
4. 4How to define "done" so it sticks
5. 5Why overplanning is still underthinking
6. 6How assumptions hide inside plans
7. 7When to plan in detail vs outline
8. 8How dependencies quietly control timelines
9. 9Why rework is more expensive than delay
10. 10How to spot fake progress
11. 11Planning for learning, not perfection
12. 12When to stop planning and start execution