Work with them on a product roadmap?
I've seen folks wanting big changes and we sit down and draw things up and surprisingly it looks like the old roadmap. Everyone is happy and I don't say anything about the similarities, and most importantly we're on the same page ;)
Sometimes when leadership asks for big changes, even when they say big changes, you might find if you get into the details it's not THAT big a change.
In the meantime don't let your mind run too wild assuming and worrying about what they might be asking for. I do that too, it's a developer thing I think, we start considering possibilities or even misused terminology and we get into a loop ;)
This is great advice.
> I've seen folks wanting big changes and we sit down and draw things up and surprisingly it looks like the old roadmap.
I've found myself doing this also. It also helps to reason through new nuances found on the same evidence, because we're more wise looking at the same data in the future, or in this case, in the present (looking from the past).