Living Document Notice
Staged 2026-09-27. Living revisions and interconnected notes live in the Stax Digital Garden.
Stage-Gate Kanban Workflows and Deterministic Sprint Refits
Managing complex solopreneur infrastructure requires rigid stage-gate enforcement rather than endless, ambiguous task boards. Transitioning work items across explicit cryptographic state gates prevents premature merging and technical debt accumulation.
Stage-Gate Invariants
- Explicit State Boundaries: Tickets cannot transition from review to published without passing automated validation scripts and syntax lint checks.
- Immutable Audit Trails: Every Kanban state change appends an immutable JSON log entry to the local telemetry bus.
- Frictionless Rollbacks: Failed deployments automatically trigger reversion scripts, returning the workspace to the last known green commit.
Deterministic sprint refits eliminate administrative overhead and keep focus locked on functional delivery.
- Directus Target: careen-blog
- Garden Source Reference: MOC - Careen Project Management, MOC - Fleet Operations, LOG-1001 - Append-Only Temporal Logs