Delivery Planning - Realistic Roadmap with Critical Path

Foundational Principle

Every roadmap must be grounded in reality, not optimism.

Creating unrealistic timelines creates:

• Broken promises to stakeholders
• Team burnout from impossible deadlines
• Loss of credibility when dates slip
• Hidden dependencies discovered during execution

Roadmaps answer: When will working software be delivered to users? Roadmaps never answer: How fast could we go if everything goes perfectly (that's fantasy).

Mandatory Workflow