Critical note: A roadmap should be considered a ‘point in time’ artifact instead of a contract for the quarter. Things will and do change. This will be updated with living retros as touchpoints along the way. The product workstream lead will aim for biweekly, around office hours.

• here is the spreadsheet template I want to use that i forked from some friends at airbnb (and have used before)

Motivation

If the goals set up mental models, frameworks for collaboration, and an overarching portfolio of bets this proposal explains the details of them with timelines of now, next, and later.

This roadmap will also be tremendously easier to understand with framing initiatives or features as one of three things:

1. Rocks
   1. Rocks are big and heavy, they form the basis of our portfolio and will get the priority focus for product and engineering until we have them placed.
2. Pebbles
   • Pebbles are easier to manage but still slippery. Getting them right right requires a few loops. However! the rigor with better long form and mini specs we introduced in the past two months is encouraging. By speccing, spiking, and exploring within the discovery and definition phases, it will be easier placing the pebbles and sand around the rocks.
3. Sand
   • Sand are all the little tasks that don’t quite fit in a mini spec but are just quality of life, polish, and simple additions that make experiences better for users and developers.

<aside> 📏 Now we have a formula: {the specs give the what and why[ name & business case]} + {the size of the work [rock/pebble/sand],} + {the when [now next later]} + {statuses [draft, discovery, definition, hand off/execution]} = Shipping.

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Specification—Northstars

Marching towards our north stars means planning our roadmap around those three types of work and tagging them as now, next, and later. Adjusting in real time will happen every Monday, as usual.

• Get the API to market and get customers paying (25 best case | 3-5 base | 0 failure)
• Weekly active transactions goes to 300
• Monetizeable Volume goes above 500K
• Trading volume gets to 750k.
• Cumulatively transactions goes up ( 70k best 30k base 25k failure)

Portfolio of bets

We have bandwidth for around one big rocks running in parallel with a few pebbles, per month. We don’t want to fracture our efforts on shiny sand that take up bandwidth without results.