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Title: Engineering Change Pipeline Vision -> Planning: Milestone 1, 2 ... N group: Milestone Vision -> Planning: Milestone AC note: Breaking the vision down into milestones and tasks with clear requirements. Planning -> Context: Story 1, 2 ... N group: Story Planning -> Context: Acceptance Criteria note: Design documents, diagrams, RFCs, spikes, and pairing to understand how this work fits into the whole system. group: Context Context -> Code: Technical Design note: Breaking down **Story** acceptance criteria and design to small, clear chunks of code to review and merge. Context --> Planning: Resize stories Code -> Review: PR 1, 2, 3 ... N group: Changeset Code -> Review: Local DX note: Optimize for spin up time, debugging, and testing. Code --> Vision: {far-play-circle} Demos Review --> Planning: {fas-badge-check} Acceptance Criteria Review -> Deploy: Acceptance note: Automated checks, PR size, and consistent review expectations. Deploy -> Stage: Stable pipeline note: E2E tests, deployment documentation, observability end end Stage --> Vision: {far-play-circle} Demos end Stage --> Vision: {far-comment} Stakeholder testing end