It is time to dismantle the myth of estimating and predicting the future. Here are 15 questions that will make you reconsider your requests to predict the future.
A quality product roadmap is possible. It is even better when combined together with a prioritisation framework. Marrying the Now-Next-Later road mapping with the MoSCoW prioritisation framework may be just what you need to arrive at an aligned, thorough, understandable, quality prioritised roadmap.
Why do things don’t go according to plan? Accurately predicting the future is almost impossible. That’s because we have an optimism bias and we underestimate the time needed to complete any future task. It’s called the “planning fallacy”.