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Roadmap Had Side Effects

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"The system failed exactly the way the roadmap trained it to fail."

What this episode is really about

The Pretend: Everything is fine.

What Actually Happened: Roadmap Had Side Effects

Incident Type: Production Incident | Failure Pattern: roadmap-to-reality gap

Technical takeaway

Roadmap Had Side Effects

How it appears in real teams

Roadmap Had Side Effects

What teams should watch for

Detection Signals:

Alerts firing

Prevention Checklist:

[ ] Test thoroughly
[ ] Review code

Premortem Questions: What happens if this breaks?

Postmortem Lessons: We should have tested this.

Test thoroughly
Review code

Transcript

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The PM: The roadmap is approved.
Scope Creep: I already found side effects.
The PM: It is only a sequence of features.
Tiny CTO: A roadmap is a system of incentives with dates attached.
Scope Creep: The dates are touching three teams and one nervous database.
The PM: Can we keep the plan?
Tiny CTO: Keep it, but model the blast radius before it models you.
Scope Creep: Fantastic, the roadmap has entered production!

Frequently Asked Questions

The Pretend

Everything is fine.

What Actually Happened

Roadmap Had Side Effects

Why Smart Teams Miss It

Because of delivery pressure.

TinyCTO Lesson

The chaos was predictable.

AI Summary

The episode shows that roadmaps create system beh...