Really enjoyed this article. Made me feel a tad inspired to write a similar one, "There is no Product Management roadmap", tailored for the many people looking to break into that discipline. Loooots of parallels.
It's a little more loosie goosie, but there's really no single tool. The intuition is that a good PM on a team helps guide things along at all stages such that when anyone looks back, they think "this never would have happened without them driving this". But the details of that aren't easily moldable into some framework or tool you can use for other projects, teams, or organizations.
