Product-Spark — Product Spark

Potentially shippable product slice — PoC, MVP, or phased increment; aliases release slice, product increment.

What it is

Planning unit in PLANNING-FLOW.md — often aligns milestone M1. Assay Gate at boundary.

When people say this

When committing roadmap slices spanning multiple iterations — not a single afternoon task.

Where it lives

blueprints/sdlc/methodologies/forge/planning/

How it fits the ecosystem

Contains Forge iterations; rolls up Ingots and Sparks beneath WBS hierarchy.

Typical usage in plans and chat

Never confuse with Forge Spark (task) or discipline/product spike learning work.

Do not confuse with

Forge-Spark

Disambiguation bridges


Term page — canonical catalog entry product-spark.