#roadmaps

Roadmap reviews when half the work is non-deterministic

“I stole four columns from my therapist; my engineers stopped sighing.”

The Drop column: killing what you're attached to

“A backlog item you'll never build isn't free. It's rent you pay every planning cycle — re-reading it, re-debating it, re-deciding not to do it — forever, until you let it die.”

The Analyze column: the one everyone skips

“A well-evidenced problem with no solution is not a small task. It's a different kind of work — and building before you've done it is just a confident guess with a sprint attached.”

The Build column is smaller than you think

“Build isn't where ideas go to get prioritized. It's where they arrive after they've already earned it everywhere else.”

The four-column ask: build, test, analyze, or drop

“You don't prioritize a feature. You prioritize the next action a feature has earned — and that's build, test, analyze, or drop.”