Incident Started as a Small Ask

TECHNICAL PARABLE Incident Started as a Small Ask

The PM Adult professional woman representing alignment, roadmap pressure, prioritization, stakeholder negotiation, and delivery reality. "It began as a small ask."

Scope Creep Adult East Asian male-presenting character representing requirement drift, scope expansion, MVP bloat, delivery risk, and vague roadmap growth. "I prefer the term expandable opportunity."

The PM Adult professional woman representing alignment, roadmap pressure, prioritization, stakeholder negotiation, and delivery reality. "It only touched one field."

Tiny CTO Very short adult CTO, title host, narrator, calm adult in chaos, present-tense production-chaos explainer. "In production, one field can be a tunnel system."

The chaos was predictable.

TINY CTO LESSON Small asks still need context, ownership, rollback, and production-risk assessment. Read Full Technical Parable →