[catmanjan]

Agreed, this seems to be one of those cases where a word was invented that can be confusing when read literally.

I'd say a product roadmap is more like a product recipe - you already have (or can get) the ingredients, so the roadmap is like the cooking method with charts

[Jibranio]

Cool analogy, thanks. It could be a nice way of explaining it when I eventually get into talking about examples of product roadmaps.