Portfolio Roadmap

A portfolio roadmap visualizes lifecycle decisions—invest, sustain, migrate, retire—for assets in an application or product portfolio over multi-year horizons. It balances funding across run and change categories. Portfolio roadmaps translate architecture intent into commit-level planning dialogue.

In Practice

Larkinized LLC links portfolio roadmaps to heatmaps and rationalization criteria for transparency. Finance and architecture jointly own retirement savings assumptions. Roadmap conflicts surface when programs independently plan overlapping platform changes.

Example

A portfolio roadmap retires three legacy middleware products while funding a shared integration platform over four years.