When it comes to evaluating business plans, I've come to look for these red flags: # 🚩 use of passive passive language If your plan says something will be done but does not articulate *who* does it, that's a bad sign. Nobody knows who will do the work, they are wishing the work would do itself. > [!example] Examples > - Designs will be reviewed > - Action plans will be developed > - Documents will be released # 🚩~3-to-6 month swell When your plan doesn't have many immediate tasks, doesn't have many long-term tasks, but does have a huge swell of tasks that start in the ~3 to ~6 month out timeframe, that's a sign that project members don't know how to get started what needs done, but also know it can't wait. It's a [[Three Stooges Problem]]. > Well we can't do anything about it today, but also it needs done. We will kick it out 3 to 6 months and hope we can figure out between now and then how to actually make this actionable. # 🚩abstract deliverables A lack of [[Falsifiable Deliverables are Better|Verifiable goals]] indicates that the plan owners have low confidence in their ability to meet discrete/concrete deliverables and:or they don't know what they are. **** # More ## Source - [[Myself]]