> The roadmap creation and review process maintains the polite fiction that people are interchangeable, but everyone knows this isn't true and teams that are ef

> The roadmap creation and review process maintains the polite fiction that people are interchangeable, but everyone knows this isn't true and teams that are effective and want to ship on time can't play along when the rubber hits the road even if they play along with the managers, directors, and VPs, who create roadmaps as if people can be generically abstracted over. Agreed, and this breaks down when there's a large deviation from the mean for any particular team member, where the mean isn't necessarily some sort of "average", but more like what the rest of the organization has become used to in terms of productivity from that team/department. But if the "polite fiction" enforcement resists this reality, it comes out in all sort of undesirable ways. It's... not nice.