... is one where you walk out with fewer tasks than you had when you went in.

For the past three months, I've been wincing at a gigantic "plan" that's been sitting on my desk, waiting for me to start it. It's not so much a plan as a very vaguely-defined wish list. But even in this rough state, it's clear that it will obviously take a metric ass-load of work to do, no matter what we come up with as the final version. And it's been hard for me to get all the relevant players into a meeting so they can decide on the specifics, and so we can all get a clear idea about how much work it will take. But, today I got my meeting. And after 40 minutes of talking, a little nugget of gold fell out of the key player's mouth - no not his tooth, but rather, it was the fact that what he needs is really just a small tweak to what our product already does. So, instead of needing me to rewrite 90% of what we have, it turns out that what I've already written does 90% of what we need. Awesome! I feel like someone just pulled a big bag of wet sand off my back.

Yay!