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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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roadmap

/ˈrəʊd.mæp/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A map drawn for a vehicle that has not been built, on a road that resets each quarter. Everything important lives just past the visible horizon.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A sequenced plan of what an organization intends to deliver and roughly when, used to set expectations and coordinate work.

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See also
  • digital transformationA standing program whose deliverable is its own continuation. It does not finish; it renews, like a season pass to a process no one owns.
  • north starA fixed point chosen for navigation and consulted by no one steering. It is admired at the offsite and unreachable from the desk, which is rather the point of a star.
  • okrsA quarterly ritual that converts work into numbers, then converts the numbers back into the work that was always going to happen anyway. Graded green by the same team that set them.
  • quick winA dashboard delivered fast to defer the slow question of who acts on it. The win is quick because the hard part was left out of scope.