Product Management

Great Expectations Management

Stakeholders, Roadmaps, and Other Fictions

Charles Dickens · 28 June 2026

“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on its requirements.”

An account of product roadmaps, delivery promises, scope negotiation, and the painful discovery that every feature request creates three additional meetings.

Contents

  1. Chapter 1: The Product Vision
  2. Chapter 2: Miss Havisham Reviews the Roadmap
  3. Chapter 3: Estella Rejects the MVP
  4. Chapter 4: Managing Expectations

Published by Austenpunk, the distinguished imprint for engineers who believe that every production incident would be improved by a stronger sense of narrative irony.

This essential volume combines literary feeling, technical anxiety, and just enough documentation to suggest that somebody once understood the system.

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