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# Macroplan
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A **Macroplan** is a week-granular view of the features we've committed to deliver — a simpler cousin of a Gantt chart whose purpose is not just scheduling but *learning* from how our estimates held up over time.
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## Language
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**Macroplan**:
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A week-granular plan of the **Features** we've committed to deliver, read as a record of how estimates held against reality.
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_Avoid_: Gantt, roadmap, timeline
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**Feature**:
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A unit of delivery with a start week, an **Original Estimate**, optional **Re-estimates**, and (eventually) a **Delivery**.
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_Avoid_: task, ticket, story, epic
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**Original Estimate**:
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The first committed delivery week for a Feature. The immovable baseline against which on-time vs. late is judged. Rendered `◯` while unmet.
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_Avoid_: target, deadline, due date
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**Re-estimate**:
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A revised, later delivery week recorded when a Feature will miss a prior estimate. A visible slip; it never moves the Original Estimate baseline. Rendered `△`.
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_Avoid_: reschedule, new deadline
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**Delivery**:
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The week a Feature was actually completed. On-time (delivered on/before the Original Estimate) renders `◉`; late renders `▲`.
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_Avoid_: completion, done date, release
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**Milestone**:
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An external event or date that explicitly names a set of Features that must be delivered by it. Rendered as a labelled vertical line across the plan. Carries no rolled-up status of its own — whether it will be hit is read off its Features.
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_Avoid_: deadline, release, gate
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**Learning**:
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A free-text takeaway captured against a Feature once it is delivered — what this delivery taught us to do better next time. Shown in a persistent trailing column per row; empty for in-flight Features.
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_Avoid_: retro note, lesson, postmortem
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**Status**:
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A Feature's *current* delivery confidence (a snapshot, overwritten each review): **green** (all good), **orange** (in trouble but we have a plan), **red** (in trouble and we have no plan). May carry a comment. Applies only while in-flight; once delivered, the **Learning** takes over and the Status is dropped. An overdue Feature (past its latest estimate, not delivered) is expressed through an orange/red Status, not a dedicated symbol.
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_Avoid_: health, RAG, risk
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**Week**:
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A column of the plan: one real calendar week, identified and labelled by the date of its first workday (Monday). Columns run contiguously from the earliest Feature start to the last marker or Milestone — empty weeks in between are still drawn.
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_Avoid_: column, period, sprint
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**Now line**:
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A vertical line marking the current week across the whole plan — the at-a-glance "where are we right now".
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_Avoid_: today marker, cursor
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## Symbols
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- `┣` start of a Feature's bar
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- `━` continuation of the bar
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- `◯` Original Estimate, not yet delivered
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- `◉` delivered on time (on/before Original Estimate)
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- `△` Re-estimate (a slip to a later week)
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- `▲` delivered late (after Original Estimate)
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## Relationships
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- A **Macroplan** contains a flat, author-ordered list of **Features** (typically ordered by start **Week**) and many **Milestones**. There is no grouping/workstream concept.
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- A **Feature** has exactly one **Original Estimate**, zero or more **Re-estimates**, at most one **Delivery**, and at most one **Learning**.
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- A **Milestone** explicitly names the **Features** required by it; a Feature may be required by zero, one, or several Milestones, and a Feature may be in the plan without belonging to any Milestone.
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- On-time vs. late is judged against the **Original Estimate**, never a **Re-estimate**.
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## Example dialogue
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> **PM:** "Feature C had a `◯` in W3 but we slipped — put a `△` in W5."
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> **Dev:** "And when it actually shipped in W6, it's `▲` late, because we judge against the original W3 `◯`, not the W5 re-estimate."
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> **PM:** "Right. The slip and the late delivery are both visible — that's the **Learning**."
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