Substitutable

Some prerequisites can be met more than one way. Tag those, because a second supplier, tool, or person makes the requirement look like a hard blocker when it is really a choice. Substitutable items rarely deserve emergency attention.

Some prerequisites can be met more than one way. Tag those, because a second supplier, tool, or person makes the requirement look like a hard blocker when it is really a choice. Substitutable items rarely deserve emergency attention.

Example

On the launch list, "legal sign-off on the terms page" looked like a blocker, but outside counsel or your in-house counsel can both do it. Marked substitutable, it drops off the critical path, and the security review stays the one real bottleneck.