TECHNICAL PARABLE

Roadmap Had Side Effects

Roadmap Had Side Effects
The PM Adult professional woman representing alignment, roadmap pressure, prioritization, stakeholder negotiation, and delivery reality.

"The roadmap is approved."
Scope Creep Adult East Asian male-presenting character representing requirement drift, scope expansion, MVP bloat, delivery risk, and vague roadmap growth.

"I already found side effects."
The PM Adult professional woman representing alignment, roadmap pressure, prioritization, stakeholder negotiation, and delivery reality.

"It is only a sequence of features."
Tiny CTO Very short adult CTO, title host, narrator, calm adult in chaos, present-tense production-chaos explainer.

"A roadmap is a system of incentives with dates attached."
TINY CTO LESSON

The chaos was predictable.

Roadmaps create system behavior, incentives, dependencies, and risk, not just feature dates.

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