groom-roadmap

Productivity

Roadmap and development-plan self-iteration (grooming). After each subtask delivery, or during periodic maintenance, check off completed items, update milestone status, backfill / split / re-prioritize subtasks, and fold newly discovered needs in via the feature checklist to keep the plan self-consistent and aligned with the checklist.

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Skill: Roadmap / Plan Self-Iteration (Grooming)

Scope: TR-F022 | Usually invoked by ../orchestrate-roadmap/SKILL.md after delivery; can also run standalone.

When to use

After a milestone subtask is delivered (PR merged or ready).
During periodic roadmap maintenance, when a subtask is too large / outdated / already implicitly done.
When implementation surfaces a new gap, new dependency, or a change in requirement boundary.

Steps

Check off delivery: change the delivered subtask - [ ] M*.* to - [x]; sync the milestone overview table and the milestone section status (planned -> in progress -> delivered; delivery means merged to main + CI passing).
Backfill learnings: based on the round's PR result / blockers,
- split follow-up work discovered during implementation into new - [ ] M*.* subtasks (keep each independently deliverable, revertible, verifiable);
- split oversized subtasks; annotate removals with the reason;
- mark items with an external dependency / pending decision as blocked with the reason.
Re-prioritize: keep M1 -> M2 -> M3 by default; adjust only when dependencies / blockers / new delivery evidence change, and explain the reason in the PR.
Align scope: route newly discovered needs through ../align-feature-checklist/SKILL.md - schedule only what maps to a TR-F; reject anything hitting TR-N001-TR-N005; never silently expand the roadmap.
Consistency check: ensure the milestone overview status <-> subtask checkboxes <-> docs/feature-checklist.md status are consistent; keep the CN/EN checklists in sync; no dangling references to deleted files / skills.
Commit: plan-doc changes go through a PR - either folded into the delivery PR or as a small follow-up PR; reference the milestone ID.

Boundaries

Only edit plan / scope docs (docs/roadmap.md, docs/feature-checklist.md and its English version, the in-session plan); do not change product code in this skill.
Do not invent tasks: every new subtask must anchor to a TR-F and be a minimal closed loop.
Do not relax guardrails: non-goals, PR-only, and quality-gate requirements stay unchanged.

Acceptance

Delivered subtasks are checked off; the milestone status table is in sync
Added / split / blocked subtasks all anchor to a TR-F and are independently verifiable
New needs are aligned via the feature checklist (CN/EN in sync); no TR-N touched
Roadmap <-> feature checklist status are consistent; no dangling references