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Roadmap Pressure and Alignment
Why alignment is not a meeting, and why unspoken tradeoffs become delivery debt.
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Characters
Scope Creep
Male Far Eastern request-accumulator entity representing requirements expansion, MVP bloat, delivery risk, and vague roadmap growth.
“Just one more thing.”
Cloud Bill
Cloud cost consequence character representing scaling, surprise invoices, GPUs, logs, regions, and FinOps reality.
“I can scale that. For a price.”
Tiny CTO
Very short adult CTO, title host, narrator, calm adult in chaos, present-tense production-chaos explainer.
“Simple scales, fancy fails!”
This page covers Roadmap Pressure and Alignment as explored by Tiny CTO: The Chaos Stack. Why alignment is not a meeting, and why unspoken tradeoffs become delivery debt. Related characters: Scope Creep, Cloud Bill, Tiny CTO. Related concepts: stakeholder alignment, prioritization, product management, decision debt.