roadmap-backcast

SKILL.md

Roadmap Backcast helps you plan backward from a fixed goal or deadline to the present, identifying required milestones, dependencies, critical path, and feasibility constraints. It transforms aspirational targets into actionable, sequenced plans.

State specific outcome (not vague goal), target date, success criteria. See Common Patterns for outcome definition examples. For straightforward backcasts → Use resources/template.md.

Start at end, ask "what must be true just before this?" iteratively. Create 5-10 major milestones. For complex multi-year roadmaps → Study resources/methodology.md.

Use when planning with fixed deadline or target outcome, working backward from future goal to present, defining milestones and dependencies, mapping critical path, identifying what must happen when, planning product launches with hard dates, multi-year strategic roadmaps, event planning, transformation initiatives, or when user mentions "backcast", "work backward from", "reverse planning", "we need to launch by", "target date is", or "what needs to happen to reach". Source: lyndonkl/claude.

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