Roadmap

A technical roadmap is supposed to answer a simple question: what are we building, when, and why? In practice, most roadmaps fail to do this usefully — they’re either so high-level they don’t convey meaningful information, so granular they’re out of date within a week, or honest about neither the priorities nor the uncertainty. The engineers who build good roadmaps understand that a roadmap is a communication tool, not a plan. It’s for alignment, not prediction. ...