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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Haters will say that "build is only the first step of build-measure-learn" but that's not actually true! After hunting for product-market fit, the second favorite activity of product managers is making a roadmap (in reality, what they make is a delivery schedule and not a roadmap, but I digress).

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

A roadmap typical roadmap is a 3-month block of features the team promises to ship, broken down into 2-week "sprints" (this is what makes it "Agile" and not "Waterfall"). What you won't see on that roadmap is a slot for "time we will spend redoing the work after we find out we fucked up."

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Bonnie Patterson @bonniepatterson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Don't be silly - sure, roadmaps include time for testing, but no-one has ever allocated time to FIXING the stuff the tests show doesn't work! When I pointed out that this was kind of a major failing, the producer told me "Well, everything's just gonna have to pass testing, isn't it?"

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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

So weird how the entire industry is obsessed with monitoring productivity, but there’s basically no consideration or accountability for technical debt and making terrible shit that conveniently becomes someone else’s problem.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

So build-measure-learn does not actually translate into fixing any mistakes, because the feedback loop only fits into the timebox once. By the time you have built, it is time to build the next thing. In this context, the knowledge that the thing was the wrong thing to build is merely a burden.

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Prandium Populi @libumpopuli.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Oooh, you should definitely tell people about the idea of "tech debt". It's one of the dumbest things ever and would blow the mind of the average person.

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 04/04/2025

Agile allows us to be flexible and adapt to new information! But also we don't want to go back and change anything we built because the main number we care about is velocity!

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