Public roadmaps: when they help and when they hurt
A public roadmap helps when it shows intent and stays current. It hurts when users read it as a promise or nobody updates it.
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A public roadmap helps when it shows intent and stays current. It hurts when users read it as a promise or nobody updates it.
A one-screen release plan you can copy: what you're building, why, what's out, and roughly when.
Link commits and pull requests to the tasks they deliver, so your plan updates as you merge.
Priority tells you what to do first. Areas tell you which part of the product it belongs to.
Show direction without locking yourself into dates you can't keep.
Keep the structure that answers real questions, and remove everything else.
GitHub records what happened in the code. It doesn't say what you're building next or why.
A backlog stores ideas. A release ties work to something you're going to ship.