Speedboat — Which Lane?

Use this when you’re not sure where a piece of work belongs.

Preview, Build, and Run are the work lanes.

Land is not a lane you plan into. It’s what you log when work reaches a meaningful outcome.

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START
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  ├─ Is this an urgent incident, bug, escalation, or emergency?
  │   └─ YES → **Run (Reactive)**
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  ├─ Is this planned maintenance, tech debt, dependency upgrade, or infra improvement?
  │   └─ YES → **Run (Proactive)**
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  ├─ Are we exploring whether we should build this? (Feasibility, appetite, unknowns)
  │   └─ YES → **Preview (Discovery)**
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  ├─ Are we making something demoable for Sales, a customer conversation, or stakeholder buy-in?
  │   └─ YES → **Preview (Demo)**
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  ├─ Is this committed, production-grade work with clear scope?
  │   └─ YES → **Build**
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  ├─ Has something just reached its intended beneficiary?
  │   └─ YES → Log a **Landing**
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  └─ Still not sure?
      └─ It's probably a **Preview**. Start small, learn, decide Friday.

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Quick Rules of Thumb

Signal	Lane
“I don’t know if we should build this”	Preview (Discovery)
“Sales needs something to show”	Preview (Demo)
“We’ve decided to build this properly”	Build
“This broke / this is urgent”	Run (Reactive)
“We should fix this before it breaks”	Run (Proactive)
“This is live / this reached someone”	Landing

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Common Mistakes

Mistake	Correction
Putting exploratory work in Build	If there are open questions about whether to build it, it’s a Preview first
Treating Run work as invisible	Run is a first-class lane — make it a card, tag it, track it
Skipping the Landing log	If it reached a beneficiary, log it. Landings are how we measure progress.
Preview that’s been running 2+ weeks	It’s either Build in disguise or it needs to be killed. Raise it Friday.