alt Hacker NewsFWIW, the ritual of codifying your experimentation like this does still serve a dubious purpose -- it gives your boss a way to talk about it with their boss. This doesn't solve the problem faster, it slows things down in fact, but we live in a society and your boss needs a way to talk about your work.
I'm fine with providing status updates and a rough idea of next steps. Less so fully breaking down projects into small items, or building a year(s)-long roadmap based on a quarterly release schedule with committed items etc...