Roadmap stewardship
Co-ownership of strategy, RFCs, and stakeholder alignment.
Roadmap stewardship is co-ownership of strategy, rfcs, and stakeholder alignment.
Why this work matters
Roadmaps slip not because engineering is slow but because scope drifts, dependencies are missed, and stakeholders weren't aligned to begin with. We make the roadmap a real instrument, not a wish list.
The work, in detail.
- Quarterly planning + OKR alignment
- RFC + design review process
- Estimation rituals (relative, calibrated)
- Architecture decision records
- Stakeholder updates (board, investors, customers)
- Hiring + interview rubric design
- →Quarterly plan + OKR doc
- →RFC repository
- →Stakeholder update cadence
- →Hiring rubric + interview kit
We co-own your roadmap with PMs and engineering leadership. RFCs, sequencing, scope discipline, stakeholder communication. The grown-up work.
The approach.
RFC before code
Anything multi-week gets an RFC: problem, options, tradeoffs, decision. Stakeholders weigh in before sprints, not after.
Calibrated estimation
Relative sizing on a calibrated reference set. We measure ourselves against the estimate weekly and tune.
Stakeholder rhythm
Weekly written updates, monthly demos, quarterly retros. Stakeholders never have to ask 'how's it going?'
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