Conducting Plan Review

Plan review systematically evaluates implementation plans against quality standards across six categories—security, testing, architecture, error handling, code quality, and process—identifying blocking issues and improvement suggestions before execution begins, preventing costly failures.

A comprehensive quality checklist covers 35 items across security and correctness, testing coverage, architectural soundness, error handling, code quality standards, and process adherence, ensuring thorough evaluation before implementation starts.

Conduct plan review after drafting implementation plans and before execution begins, especially for high-stakes work like authentication systems, to catch missing security considerations, inadequate testing, and architectural flaws early.

Plan review evaluates security and correctness against established standards, flagging missing security considerations, vulnerable patterns, and authentication gaps as blocking issues or suggestions before development proceeds.

Blocking issues represent critical failures that must be resolved before execution; suggestions indicate improvements recommended for code quality, testing, or process. Plan review categorizes findings to prioritize action.

Yes, plan review evaluates whether implementation tasks are sufficiently granular, complete, and detailed across all quality dimensions, ensuring plans are executable and comprehensive before development begins.