The Technology Roadmap That Survives Contact With the Board

A roadmap built around technical sequencing — what needs to be done before what, from an engineering dependency perspective — is a perfectly reasonable engineering artefact and a weak board document. It answers 'what are we building' without answering the question the board actually needs: why, and what happens if we don't.

The roadmaps that survive budget cuts and leadership changes are structured around business outcomes with technology as the means, not the other way round.