Optional

Flags a link you could cut and still ship. The later item works without the earlier one; skipping it costs polish, not function. Marking these tells you where the slack lives, which items to defer first when the date gets tight.

Flags a link you could cut and still ship. The later item works without the earlier one; skipping it costs polish, not function. Marking these tells you where the slack lives, which items to defer first when the date gets tight.

Example

On the 40-item launch list, the animated product demo feeds the landing page but nothing depends on it. Mark it optional. When the security review eats four days, you ship the page with three screenshots instead and lose nothing that blocks anyone.