Roadmap Contributions

Product roadmaps showcase user-facing wins; engineering must inject harden and scale themes - audits, multisig migration, kit upgrades, indexer capacity - or launches ship on brittle foundations.

Recipe

Quick-reference recipe card - copy-paste ready.

## Q3 Engineering roadmap input
 
**Harden**
- Squads multisig on upgrade authority (W1)
- LiteSVM audit replay in CI (W2)
 
**Scale**
- Read/write RPC split (W4)
- Indexer backfill for new program events (W6)
 
**Grow**
- Withdraw v2 (product-led, W3-5) - depends on Harden W1

When to reach for this:

• Quarterly planning offsite
• Board deck technical slide
• DAO governance forum strategy post
• Post-audit remediation scheduling

Working Example

## Dependency-aware roadmap (internal)
 
withdraw_v2 --> multisig_deploy
multisig_deploy --> audit_signoff
mobile_mwa --> kit_7_migration
kit_7_migration --> withdraw_v2_client
 
**Critical path:** audit_signoff blocks mainnet withdraw_v2

What this demonstrates:

• Themes beyond feature names
• Explicit dependencies product must respect
• Critical path callout for date negotiations

Deep Dive

Inputs Engineering Owns

• Ecosystem upgrade calendar (SIMDs, Anchor releases)
• Open audit / bounty findings
• DORA and incident trends
• Infrastructure capacity (RPC, indexer)

Outputs Product Owns

• User outcome prioritization
• Marketing launch dates
• Pricing and token utility narrative

Gotchas

• Feature-only roadmap slide - Execs surprised by "invisible" security work. Fix: Harden theme with dates.
• Dates without dependencies - Mobile app promised before kit migration. Fix: Internal graph shared with PM.
• Public roadmap overpromise - Community holds dates engineering did not commit. Fix: Separate external vs internal.
• No ecosystem line items - Agave bump breaks deploy mid-quarter. Fix: Standing "ecosystem maintenance" epic.
• Roadmap not revisited after incident - Same risk reships. Fix: Post-mortem items auto-enter next quarter draft.

Alternatives

FAQs

Related

• Prioritizing Platform & Tech Debt - debt portfolio
• Stakeholder Communication - external messaging
• Tracking Ecosystem Change - upgrade inputs

Stack versions: This page was written for Agave 4.1.1, Solana CLI 3.0.10, Anchor 0.32.1, anchor-lang 0.32.1, Rust 1.91.1, @solana/kit 7.0.0, Surfpool 0.12.0, and LiteSVM 0.6.x.