Product Roadmaps

A product roadmap is a high-level, usually visual plan of where a product is headed over time — the themes and major capabilities planned, release by release — communicated primarily to align stakeholders on direction rather than to schedule every individual task. It deliberately stays at a higher altitude than a detailed project schedule, trading precision for a shared, forward-looking picture everyone can actually hold in their head.

Deciding which components belong in which release is a sequencing and dependency judgment: a capability that other planned features depend on generally needs to land in an earlier release than the features depending on it, and a release's overall theme should hold together as something coherent a customer can recognize and value, rather than an arbitrary grab-bag of whatever happened to be ready.

Study focus: expect a scenario listing several product capabilities with some dependency or priority relationship between them, asking which release a given capability belongs in — the roadmap tasks are really testing sequencing logic dressed up as a planning artifact.