We deleted our roadmap doc this quarter. Not archived — deleted. In its place: a weekly ship review and a public changelog. Here's why the changelog turned out to be the only planning artifact that doesn't lie.
A roadmap is a promise; a changelog is a fact
A roadmap describes a future that hasn't happened and usually won't, exactly. A changelog describes a past that did. When the two disagree — and they always do — the roadmap is the one that quietly gets edited. We got tired of maintaining the fiction.
- Weekly: a 30-minute ship review. What landed, what's next, what slipped and why.
- Public: every ship goes on the changelog the same week, linked to the decision it implements.
- Gone: the quarterly OKR sheet nobody opened between planning offsites.
The same instinct runs through the product. We don't ask you to trust a plan for what the agents will do — we show you a log of what they did. Honesty about the past beats confidence about the future, in planning and in autonomy alike.