CAPM Practice: Demonstrate an understanding of product roadmaps

A portfolio roadmap takes a higher-level view, showing how multiple products or programs across the portfolio are planned to evolve and how they relate to organizational strategy. It enables executive decision-making about investment allocation across competing initiatives.

**Why not A:** A portfolio roadmap is not simply a "less detailed" version of a product roadmap. Portfolio roadmaps operate at a higher strategic level, encompassing multiple products and initiatives, but they serve a fundamentally different purpose rather than being a simplified copy. Detail level alone does not distinguish the two artifacts.

**Why not B:** Portfolio roadmaps and product roadmaps are not synonyms. A portfolio roadmap provides a strategic view across multiple products, programs, or investments, while a product roadmap focuses on the evolution and feature planning of a single product. They differ in scope, audience, and the decisions they support.

**Why not C:** Characterizing a portfolio roadmap as purely "financial" and a product roadmap as purely "software" is an oversimplification. Portfolio roadmaps address strategic alignment across an organization's collection of initiatives—not just finances—and product roadmaps apply to any product type, not exclusively software.