roadmap-shaping

name	Roadmap Shaping
description	Turn ready work into themes, bets, and a defended sequence.
category	Product

Roadmap Shaping

A roadmap is themes with bets and an order, not a list of features with dates.

When to use

• The weekly review, when what is ready has changed.
• Whenever new evidence contradicts the current order.

Steps

1. Theme the ready work: what change in the product is being attempted.
2. State the bet for each theme — what has to be true for it to matter.
3. Sequence by dependency, then evidence, then reversibility, then cost. Cost is a tie-breaker, never the lead.
4. Date as ranges, naming what each range depends on.
5. Diff it: what moved, what dropped, and the reason for each.

Output

The sequenced roadmap plus a change note. Every move carries a reason, and a decisions row records it.