One ship line
The exact thing that has to exist—not the entire universe around it.
Finish the StuffAll ways inTalk to JuneFriday Cut
A deadline is not a strategy. Cut the crowded plan down to a minimum credible finish, name what could stop it, and put one person on the deciding line.
A smaller promise is not a smaller standard
The Cut does not tell you to work faster. It shows which promise survives, which risks need daylight, and which good ideas cannot be allowed to hold Friday hostage.
The exact thing that has to exist—not the entire universe around it.
The dependency most likely to turn a plan into a Friday-night apology.
The person allowed to say the credible version is enough to move.
Yours to keep
Copy it into Slack, a client thread, your notes, or the meeting where “one tiny addition” usually appears.
Make my Friday CutIf the cut still needs hands
Bring the cut into a Finish Map. If human work makes sense, you see the boundary, timing, and price before anything begins.
Ask June to carry it