Episode 15 - Your Pantry is lying to you (And so is your Roadmap)

Thursday Think Bites · Mar 19, 2026 · 2m · transcript

Episode15 - Your Pantry is lying to you (And so is your Roadmap)

I found three bags of walnuts in my pantry this week.

Not one.

Not two.

Three.

Which wouldn’t be strange… except I kept buying more because the jar on my shelf looked empty.

The real stock?

Hidden in a box behind everything else, a box I had stopped checking.

And the cashews?

Almost gone.

Same pantry.

Completely different reality depending on where I looked.

And it hit me, this is exactly how we build roadmaps.

We focus on what’s visible.

Sprint boards.

Roadmap decks.

Dashboards.

But every team also has a hidden box.

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