Metrics are going to be subordinate to the calendar. So we're going to have a roadmap. It's going to be a two-year roadmap.
Metrics vs. roadmaps: Pick your religion
Strategy → Roadmaps & Planning
You can't ship something unless it's on the roadmap. So every single thing in the company, with the exception of some infrastructure projects have to be on the roadmap.
I largely stay away from OKRs from a product perspective. I want to focus on velocity, which is just output, which is your roadmap, but they're pretty strong at more of the cross-functional side of things.
I have found that approach very useful during planning... 60% of our time on incrementals... 30% I want to allocate towards big new initiatives... 10% I'd like us to allocate towards stability and infrastructure.
I think for most teams, our roadmap for any feature team at Slack is that it's a portfolio and it's meant to be a portfolio that's diversified a couple different ways. One is you want to diversify things that are meant to be new capabilities versus making the thing you've already built a little bit better every day.