Problem too big

“The task is too big and it (or I) can’t hold it”

Some tasks don’t fit in one head or one context window. These techniques carve them until every piece does — modes, branches, and dependencies first.

Which version of it is yours?

• Map Dependencies, Work Backward — we started with the interesting piece, and now everything finished is waiting on something unbuilt
• Explore, Plan, Implement — Separately — it’s writing code while still figuring out the task, and nobody can say where we are
• Branch Before You Commit — it committed to the first design it thought of; the ‘alternatives’ were invented afterward to lose