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August 30, 2021

How to create your product roadmap

Adriana Landaverde's created plenty of product roadmaps in her time. Here, she shares her learnings.


Amy Lewin

3 min read

Adriana Landaverde is a product advisor and former chief product officer at green investment app Clim8 Invest. Before that she was VP product management at social platform Pollen and head of product management at investment company Nutmeg. She’s created plenty of product roadmaps in her time — the action plans of any product team — and shares some learnings here. 

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Amy Lewin

Amy Lewin is Sifted’s editor and host of Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow her on X, LinkedIn and Bluesky

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