
When that happens, roadmap driven teams won’t just say ‘hold it guys, our product loads really slow and the many users get frustrated. Let’s take the next two months to improve our past releases’. Instead, if there is no easy fix, they move to the next task and continue the development process as planned... They would say ‘It’s not perfect, but it works. Right now we have more important things — we have to deliver feature A by December’. New features will keep coming all the time, and this kind of team would keep chasing them. Their products will usually end up being fully functional products that nobody likes to use.