Hope is the hidden dependency.
Every roadmap runs on something untracked: optimism. A reflection on belief as the quiet fuel of product work and why acknowledging it might be the most honest thing we can do.
It’s not in the plan, but the plan depends on it.
The Moment of Renewal
A new year.
A new roadmap.
Fresh decks, updated milestones, cleaned-up dependencies.
The tracker looks solid.
Each dependency neatly listed: design, engineering, approvals, integration.
All known. All measurable.
And yet, beneath them all, there’s another dependency unwritten, unassigned, unacknowledged.
Hope.