CAPM Practice: Demonstrate an understanding of product roadmaps

Product roadmaps serve diverse audiences: executives use them for strategic planning, sales and marketing for customer communications, development teams for planning, and customers/partners for commitment and expectation-setting.

**Why not A:** Regulatory bodies are not the primary audience for a product roadmap. While regulated industries may need to share plans with regulators in specific contexts, roadmaps are primarily strategic communication tools for stakeholders who influence or are affected by product direction — executives, sales teams, customers, and partners.

**Why not B:** Limiting the audience to the project manager and business analyst excludes the many stakeholders who rely on roadmap visibility. Executives need it for strategic alignment, sales and marketing need it for go-to-market planning, support teams need it for customer communication, and customers need it to plan their own initiatives.

**Why not C:** Restricting the audience to the development team ignores the roadmap's primary purpose as a strategic communication tool. While developers use roadmaps for context, the broader audience — including executives, sales, marketing, customer success, partners, and customers — depends on the roadmap to understand product direction and make informed decisions.