Why subscribe?
Roadmaps break in governed orgs. This publication helps you keep yours alive.
If you work in a regulated, federated, or matrixed enterprise, you already know the truth:
Your roadmap does not fail because teams are lazy.
It fails because intake is chaotic, dependencies are invisible, and decision ownership evaporates between planning cycles.
Collaborate with Mark is a weekly field brief for PMs, POs, RTEs, and delivery leaders who need their plans to survive real governance. You get diagnostics, scripts, and risk checks you can use inside PI Planning, portfolio reviews, and stakeholder meetings.
What you get as a subscriber
Every week, subscribers get:
A clear diagnosis of a common roadmap failure mode
A 3-step repair sequence that works within governance, not against it
Copy-and-paste language for stakeholders, PMO, compliance, and architecture reviews
You will not get hype, hustle, or motivational fog. You will get tools you can defend in a meeting.
The Roadmap Intake Risk Check
When you subscribe, you get the Roadmap Intake Risk Check, a one-page assessment plus scripts to help you:
surface capacity and dependency risks earlier
stop scope creep before it becomes a surprise
make decision ownership explicit
It is designed to be politically safe to forward upward.
Who this is for
This is for you if:
your roadmap gets reshaped after planning is “done”
stakeholder drive-bys keep hijacking capacity
your org confuses approvals with clarity
you are tired of being the adult in the room without decision rights
Who this is not for
If you want generic Agile inspiration, daily hot takes, or content optimized for attention, you will be happier elsewhere. This is built for operators.
About Mark
I’m Mark S. Carroll (PMP, SPC6, RTE6), an enterprise Agile leader and senior management consultant. I’ve worked in high-stakes, governed environments, including federal agencies, where the cost of “just winging it” is very real.
I write because the best teams do not need more advice. They need decision-grade tools that make collaboration hold up under scrutiny.
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Book
My upcoming book is Collaborate Better: From Silos to Synergy, How to Build Unstoppable Teams. If you want updates, excerpts, and early-release tools tied to the book, subscribing is the best way to stay close to the build.
