A roadmap is a diagram which shows a network of roads (and not necessarily even the path through them).
Why aren’t people more comfortable / confident in reasoning about them?
Why do tables, lists, and calendars dominate corporate knowledge management?
Why is it that in a work enviornment, people reach for the calendar as an organizing tool? It’s as if the seasons affect our yield, like we’re farmers! 👩🌾
“What paths do we – or don’t we – travel, to get to where we want to go?”
I’m talking about graph traversal as a planning tool.
1. There is no way to highlight possible paths of traversals through nodes in the graph
2. Unlike Google Maps, you don’t know (roughly) how much each path will cost you, how long it might take, and what vehicle you need
Possible “transport” options (interventions) and their cost, cost of delay, time to realization, etc.
That way, you’re reframing time & cost as factors inherent to the option you pick, than a foregone conclusion
This is of course more nuanced than a literal roadmap.
The destinations in your map are assumptions/beliefs: you could find out those beliefs are false when you arrive!