https://andrewphunter.com/tags/sequencing/ Recent content in Sequencing on Andrew Hunter — Systems Architect & Builder Hugo en-us Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://andrewphunter.com/writing/derive-the-roadmap/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://andrewphunter.com/writing/derive-the-roadmap/ <p>Part IV drew the boundaries and gave each one a way to move: find the single writer of each fact, then move the pen from the legacy system to the target one without stopping the business. Any one boundary can move that way. A real estate has dozens, and the next question is the one every transformation is judged on: in what order, and by when.</p> <p>The usual answer is a roadmap drawn on a whiteboard, ordered by a demo date, by the loudest team, or by whatever the vendor can ship first. It looks like a plan and behaves like a negotiation, reopened at every steering meeting. It does not need to be drawn at all. By the time anyone asks for a roadmap, the first four parts of this series have already produced the thing it is made of, and most of the order is already decided.</p> <p>A transformation roadmap is derived, not drawn. It is the operating model laid out in time: the dependencies between capabilities are facts about how the business works, and what is left once they are honored is a business decision about which value comes first.</p>