The roadmap is months old. The market isn't.
You locked the roadmap at greenlight. Since then, comps shipped, player expectations shifted, the store changed what it rewards. Your team is executing against a plan that may not match reality anymore.
Scope calls and tradeoffs happen daily in standups and Slack -- unwritten, disconnected from what players and the market are telling you. The question nobody has time to answer: are you still building the right thing?
Where production goes sideways
- The roadmap hasn't been checked against market signal since greenlight
- Tradeoffs get made in standups and Slack, then resurface two weeks later because nobody wrote them down
- "We'll fix it later" grows quietly until QA surfaces a launch-blocking list
- Features ship because they're in the sprint, not because anyone confirmed they still matter
Planning tools tell you what's in flight. They don't tell you whether you're aimed at the right target.
Keep the build connected to the market
Iridae runs a loop between your production and live market signal:
- Checks the roadmap against reality. Player data, store trends, community signal, comp launches. Continuous, not quarterly.
- Captures tradeoffs where they happen. Scope cuts, priority shifts -- written down, connected to outcomes, visible to the team.
- Connects features to evidence. Is what you're building still what players respond to? You know before you ship, not after.
- Routes work through your existing tools. Jira, Linear, docs. After your approval.
You stay in charge of every call. Iridae keeps production decisions connected to what the market is actually doing.