Anthropic replaced six-month roadmaps with lightweight, monthly just-in-time planning
Fiona Fung · What happens after coding is solved? | Fiona Fung (Claude Code & Cowork) · Jun 21, 2026 · at 1:24:42
Fiona Fung, engineering lead at Anthropic for Claude Code and Cowork, explains how rapid AI shifts forced her team to drop multi-month roadmaps for monthly planning.
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“I think six months was too long. So now for sure some projects will take more than a month, but we try to do like a month planning, like really lightweight. Actually, there's not even dots. It's really just Also hunting on a little spreadsheet of what we think is important, but even that when I'm kind of thinking through, Hey, like every week we should probably still keep a, like what we're trying is here are the month's priorities and we're gonna try it out. But I have a feeling like every week we'll probably want to do really quick, like, Hey, just to check. Yep. This is the, still this month's priorities.”
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