Handle technical uncertainty with a fixed time budget declared up front — a specific question, a fixed N hours/days, success criteria, and pivot options; when the budget elapses, decide (extend, pivot, or done). Load when about to say "let me just try X and see if it works", when a spike has run for
Handle technical uncertainty with a fixed time budget declared up front — a specific question, a fixed N hours/days, success criteria, and pivot options; when the budget elapses, decide (extend, pivot, or done). Load when about to say "let me just try X and see if it works", when a spike has run for weeks with no decision, when estimating something you don't yet understand, when a proof-of-concept