Plan before you build

You have a pile of small tasks. That's progress — but it isn't a plan.

A plan adds two things a list doesn't have:

1. Order — what gets done first, and what has to wait
2. Dependencies — which tasks are blocked until another finishes

Without those, you'll start with the fun task, discover it needs three other things first, and stall.

Look through your tasks and ask of each one: what must exist before I can do this?

You can't make the basket move before the basket exists. You can't score a catch before the mango falls. You can't show "Game Over" before there's a way to lose.

Tasks that depend on nothing go first. Then tasks that depend only on those. Keep going — this is exactly the sequencing skill from Chapter 2, now applied to a project instead of a sandwich.