Getting Real about Customer Delight: The Strategy of Emotional Outcomes
It’s all the rage, and is often the reason we get out of the bed each day – we want... Read →
The year 2020 shifted the world in fundamental ways. It changed the way we work, learn, play, travel, and socialize…. Read →
If you’re a product manager or part of a startup, you’ve likely heard about the Minimum Viable Product concept for… Read →
There is no going back to “normal” for product teams. The idea of simply translating what we did in the… Read →
No matter how much we love our career, we all have some days when we’d rather stay in bed. So… Read →
“Am I working on the right things?” “How can I fit it all in?” I find myself asking these questions… Read →
I’ll admit it, in the past, I’ve wrestled with needing to control uncertainty. For years I thoroughly planned most everything… Read →
The most successful product managers think of themselves as finders of pain, not finders of products. In my experience launching… Read →
A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. Building the… Read →
We write a lot about the skills that product managers need to be effective. The skills are wide-ranging, from ruthless… Read →
What a year. There are so many changes happening in product management as I write this, and the evolution only… Read →
As a product manager who now sits on the other side of the table as an executive, I’ve had lots… Read →
No matter how far into your career you might be, you’re never too old for imposter syndrome to make an… Read →
Sometimes it’s hard to let go of something after discovering it no longer works as you expect. Especially if it’s… Read →
As we head into a new year, we tend to talk more about gratitude. We talk about what we’re grateful… Read →
If launching new products were easy, you’d probably be reading this post through your Google Glass or on an Amazon… Read →
Customer validation interviews are an important component of the product development process. Product managers use customer validation interviews to help… Read →
During our recent webinar—How Product Managers and Agile Development Teams Can See Eye to Eye—we received so many attendee questions… Read →
What do you think it means to be a product owner — not simply the product manager, but a true… Read →
I recently did a webinar with Pragmatic Marketing on the topic of thought leadership for product managers. One of the… Read →
Developing an effective product roadmap requires more than a product manager’s intuition and vision, although those elements are crucial. But… Read →
I was recently featured on a Pragmatic Marketing webinar about how product managers can become thought leaders. There was a… Read →
Thousands of new products launch every month. Yet only a fraction of those gets enough traction to be considered successful…. Read →
On our blog we often discuss the challenges of being a product manager. One recurring theme is that although you… Read →
Tools, technology and talent to develop innovative new products are more abundant and accessible today than they’ve ever been. Even… Read →
Criticism can uncover important truths. This is one reason that product managers have such a difficult job: Sometimes the only… Read →
One of the biggest challenges product managers face is working with diverse stakeholders and managing their conflicting priorities. You’re pulled… Read →
At ProductPlan, I frequently get questions about agile roadmap planning. How should you balance long-term strategic planning with short-term agility?… Read →
A few years ago the UK government’s publicly available online information was spread out across hundreds of individual and disconnected… Read →
Over 1,200 product managers gathered yesterday at the San Francisco symphony hall to hear 9 amazing speakers talk about the… Read →
Public speaking isn’t usually included as a required skill in a typical product manager job description. But it should be…. Read →
We know how it goes. As a product manager, you’re busy dealing with day-to-day demands: prioritizing the backlog, updating various… Read →
Like you, we have now seen a dozen articles predicting the top trends for product managers in 2016. Yes, we… Read →
Watch how product roadmap software from ProductPlan helps AppFolio align its product strategy across the entire company. Product Roadmap… Read →
“How far are we away from being done?” That’s possibly one of the more common questions the product team will… Read →
Thank you to everyone who participated in ProductPlan’s 2015 Product Roadmap Survey. We had a terrific response, with so many… Read →
Do you use a Google account at work? We’ve recently introduced a convenient new way to sign in to ProductPlan – using… Read →
We’re often asked whether we use our own product to plan and build ProductPlan. The answer is a resolute Yes – we’re… Read →
Portfolio Views are a great way to merge roadmaps together in a holistic overview. We’ve released new features that make… Read →
Getting clarity on the product roadmap within larger organizations can be challenging. In addition to multiple product launches, there are often distinct… Read →
Henry Schein, Inc. is the world’s largest provider of health care products and services to dental, animal health and medical… Read →
We’ve made PDF export even better! With the new Details table, you can include a list of the details for your roadmap, including the… Read →
Pricing is such a core part of a SaaS product’s business model that you need to get it right. In… Read →
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