What problem does it solve? When a deadline slips, most teams just pick a new date without understanding why the original one failed, leading to repeated misses. This Skill enforces a structured root-cause retrospective before any rescheduling happens, so new timelines are grounded in diagnosis rather than optimism. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Socratic 5 Whys Interview: Guides a structured interview to classify the failure into one of four root causes: estimation failure, scope creep, blocker/dependency, or context switching. - Buffer-Based Rescheduling: Applies a root-cause-specific multiplier (1.20x to 1.50x) to remaining effort to calculate a realistic new deadline. - Pre-Mortem Risk Forecasting: Asks what could cause the new deadline to fail and establishes mitigation guards before committing. - Google Workspace Sync: Hands off updates to Google Tasks due dates, Calendar focus blocks, and appends retro reports to shared Google Docs. - Use Case: A product milestone slips by a week. The skill interviews you, identifies scope creep as the cause, applies a 1.50x buffer to remaining work, runs a pre-mortem, then updates the Google Task due date and publishes a retro report. ## Quick Start Run a postmortem on my missed milestone, diagnose the root cause, and reschedule the Google Task with an appropriate buffer.
