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Council-driven feature planning is a governance process that converts early-stage concepts into approved implementation plans. It uses a Product Council for strategic alignment and a Feature Council for technical planning to generate a decision record and scoped task breakdown.

To create an MVP plan and decision record, describe your feature concept to initiate the planning workflow. The councils will refine the idea into a lean MVP plan and produce a documented decision reference for engineers to implement.

You can use this governance process for architecture and deployment planning, as well as product strategy. The planning workflow applies to early-stage concepts across product, architecture, and deployment considerations before any development work begins.

The best way to enforce governance before development is to require defined scope, council votes, and a lean MVP plan. This multi-council review process ensures traceability by linking documented decisions to implementation work items and roadmaps.

You do not need existing roadmaps or work items to start feature planning. You only need to describe a feature concept to trigger the Product and Feature Councils, which will then produce the implementation plan and link it to subsequent work items.