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Anti-Pattern

Named pathologies in PM. Roadmap theater. The green board illusion. Defined, dissected, broken open.

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Anti-Pattern

Roadmap theater

· 8 min read

The show beneath the plan. Why quarterly roadmaps optimize for the wrong audience, and what to swap in.
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The green board illusion

· 5 min read

"Everything is on track" is the most dangerous sentence in PM. Here's the mechanism that produces it.
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PM hygiene debt

· 6 min read

The compounding cost of letting boards rot. Quantified, with three real teams as the data.