My GitHub has a graveyard. Several personal projects, each following the same lifecycle: get an idea, write some frontend, push to GitHub, deploy to Vercel, static page appears. Then nothing. Not because I ran out of time. Not because the code got hard. It's because one day I'd open the project and genuinely not know what to do next — which feature to build, whether a feature was worth building at all, how to make a UI decision without second-guessing it for thirty minutes. I'd stare at the editor, then close it. This post is about how I fixed that. Not with more discipline — with structure I'd been missing. The Real Problem: Roles Disappear When I work on a professional team, I never have the "what do I do next" problem. Before any sprint starts, we run an IPM (Iteration Planning Meeting) : story cards get reviewed, estimates get made, must-haves get separated from should-haves.…