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3. Delivery plans & milestones
Project Management for Tech · 36 pages source format
A plan is a bet with checkpoints. Prefer milestones tied to demos or decisions over Gantt vanity.
What you'll learn
- Milestones
- Dependencies
- Buffers
- Critical path intuition
Milestone map
Each milestone = something visible (demo, migration complete, flag on). Dates are hypotheses.
- Kickoff / aligned scope
- Thin vertical slice working
- Hardening / test gate
- Launch / handoff
Do this now
Create 4–6 milestones with exit criteria for each.
Clear?
Dependency sketch
Who blocks whom? External teams are the usual silent killers.
Do this now
Draw arrows between workstreams. Highlight one external dependency and a mitigation.
Clear?