On building product: Why and why not to write a roadmap

There are good and bad reasons to write a roadmap for the year. 

The bad reason is to write one to plan your entire year. Those plans are rarely useful.

The good reason is to help you put everything into perspective, force you to ask hard questions, and articulate what you want to do with your resources: 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?