[theptip]

> you don't need that plan because it's just an arbitrary block of pretty fungible work

This is an over-generalization. If you are a team of 5 selling a B2C product, sure.

But for B2B you tend to need to commit to a roadmap eventually, hence planning.

And for bigger orgs with multiple teams, if you want to commit to x-team initiatives then longer timeframes can help with coordination. (Ie- we want to deliver X in Q4, therefore A and B should be done in Oct, so that C can begin in Nov)

[procaryote]

Does the roadmap actually help in the B2B case though? In many companies it's just a way to disappoint the customer a bit now (because the thing they want isn't first on the roadmap) and a bit more later (because the roadmap failed).

X-team initiatives do need planning and coordination sometimes, but if you have a lot of x-team initiatives, your teams are probably set up wrong. If you fix that you can plan less.