Product Backlog
Date: 12/28/2025
Official Company Memo
To: Our Loyal Customers and Employees
Re: Products for PI Planning
Additional initiatives remain under-review by key Business stakeholders, including, finance/budget availability, offshore resource agreements, ramp-up plans, a North Star vision, and sufficient time to execute between endless, recurring - no value meetings and SaFE ceremonies.
- Product launches are under active evaluation and governance
- Delivery will proceed as capacity allows.
- Timelines remain fluid and subject to change based on alignment outcomes, resourcing, constraints, reprioritization of existing initiatives.
- Certain initiatives may be accelerated, delayed, realigned, or offshored without notice
Current Status: Not groomed / prioritized lately.
Product Backlog
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Strategic Priority: Grow Product Backlog. Not groomed lately. Scope expanding anyway. |
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Strategic Priority: Create Strategic Priorities. Because last week's priorities are no longer relevant |
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Strategic Priority: Find the North Star. Direction pending executive alignment (again) |
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Strategic Priority: Mandate SAFe. Drive chaos and uncertainty at Scale |
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Strategic Priority: Create Metrics that Don't Matter. Impossible to trust. Impressive in decks |
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Strategic Priority: Define SMART Goals, KPIs & OKRs Defined. Re-defined. Never achieved |
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Strategic Priority: Increase Employee Engagement Culture Survey sent. Action items de-prioritized |
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Strategic Priority: Expedite Integration of GEN A.I. Use cases unclear. Contracts signed, Expectations over-promised (as usual) |
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Strategic Priority: Complete Digital Transformation. Same process. New tools. - More Customer Friction |
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Strategic Priority: Right-Size Organization & Find Synergies Headcount reduced. Work unchanged. |
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Strategic Priority: Expand E2E Processes. More handoffs. Fewer outcomes |
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Strategic Priority: Increase Velocity. Quality deprioritized |
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Strategic Priority: Do More with Less. Less funding. Same expectations. Faster delivery |
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Strategic Priority: Drive Cross-Functional Alignment. More meaningless meetings added. Alignment still pending |
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Strategic Priority: Increase Employee Churn. Internal friction out of scope. |
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Strategic Priority: Accelerate Decision-Making. Awaiting executive alignment. Posturing in progress |
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Strategic Priority: Pause to Reassess. Execution suspended. Will resume shortly - same timelines |
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Strategic Priority: Operationalize the Vision. PowerPoint complete |
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Strategic Priority: Improve Quality. Velocity remains the priority |
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Strategic Priority: Simplify Operating Model. Additional layers and complexities added |
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Strategic Priority: Standardize Tools and Processes. Exceptions approved |