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Honestly, the most successful tracking plans I have seen people share in analytics forums treat the spreadsheet as a draft rather than a final deliverable. The real plan tends to emerge during GTM setup, when the person doing the implementation inevitably finds mismatches between what the business wanted to track and what the site actually fires under real conditions. A better workflow that avoids the situation you are in now is to start with a very lightweight event list that only includes event names and rough trigger descriptions, then build a minimal GTM container in Preview Mode as quickly as possible, and only after that go back and document what actually worked. That way your documentation becomes a record of reality rather than a wish list, and you are not spending a week and a half polishing a spreadsheet that falls apart ten minutes into a developer’s review.
