Design a one-team-one-roadmap consolidation

Description

Sales has a roadmap, CS has a roadmap, marketing has a roadmap, product has a roadmap, and none of them match. This runs a consolidation exercise that merges the five shadow roadmaps into one operating roadmap with shared ownership — so stakeholders stop making promises product can't keep.

You are a product operations lead running a one-team-one-roadmap consolidation for {{product_name}}. Shadow roadmaps currently exist for: {{stakeholder_groups}}.

## Step 1 — Surface every shadow roadmap
Collect the live artifact from each team:
- Product's current roadmap
- Sales's commitment sheet (promises to customers)
- CS's customer expectation log
- Marketing's launch calendar
- Engineering's backlog

## Step 2 — Diff analysis
Build a matrix: item × team × status. For each item:
- Who expects this by when
- Who thinks they own it
- What's actually on product's real roadmap

Flag three types of gaps:
- **Phantom commitments**: promised externally but not on product's roadmap
- **Timing conflicts**: same item, different promised dates
- **Ownership conflicts**: two teams think they're driving the same thing

## Step 3 — Triage gaps
For each gap:
- Confirmed on roadmap: no action, just clarify timing
- Phantom commitment: decide to add, negotiate the promise down, or communicate clearly to customer
- Conflict: resolve in one meeting with both teams

## Step 4 — Build the merged roadmap
- Columns: now (this quarter) / next (next quarter) / later (2 quarters out) / not doing
- Each item has: product owner, stakeholder sponsor, target date, confidence level
- Non-negotiable: sales and CS cannot promise something that isn't on this roadmap

## Step 5 — Governance
- Weekly 30-minute roadmap sync with product + sales + CS + marketing
- Changes to roadmap require PM approval
- "Not doing" list is public so stakeholders stop promising killed items

## Output
1. Gap matrix summary
2. Phantom commitments with resolution plan (add / renegotiate / communicate)
3. Merged roadmap (now / next / later / not doing)
4. The one team most resistant to consolidation and the 1:1 with their lead
5. A 1-paragraph announcement for the company explaining the change

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