altitude-checklisted

# altitude-check Zoom out on one body of work and name the next thing to do. ## When To Use - A long session has drilled into narrow sub-tasks and the goal has gone out of view. - Work is being picked back up after a gap, with no confidence that what is in progress is still the right thing. - A session is about to be committed to something and the next move has not been chosen deliberately. - Someone asks whether the current work is still worth doing. Do not use this to order a whole board by priority, to review a session backward for learnings, or to look at two separate bodies of work in one run. ## Definitions **Workstream.** One body of work with a goal and a set of open pieces. Usually a parent issue and its children, because a tracker already gives you identity, states, and dependency links for free. Sometimes just the plan and the pile of work in front of you. Either is enough to run against; a tracker only makes more of the checks answerable. ## Core Idea **The reconciliation is the input, not the output.** Finding out what is inconsistent does not tell you what to work on. Three phases, and the first two exist to earn the third. | Phase | Question | Output | | --- | --- | --- | | A - Reconcile | What is actually true? | Findings, tagged and evidenced | | B - Assess | Does the open work still serve the goal? | A verdict per check | | C - Recommend | What should be worked on next? | One next thing, with its reason | ## What You Need Three things, in descendi