Danial Kalbasi

Notes on engineering leadership, building products, and figuring out what matters.

Good reason to write a roadmap

There are good and bad reasons to write a yearly roadmap.

The bad reason is to plan your entire year. Those plans rarely survive reality.

The good reason is to help you put everything into perspective, ask hard questions, and articulate what you want to do with your people, your time, and your energy.

If your roadmap feels like last year’s checklist, try this question: If we started today with the same team but no commitments, what would we build?