What to Expect When You’re Expecting (to Be Acquired)
Short of going public, the goal of many companies is being acquired by a deep-pocketed, larger company with a complementary... Read →
The Myth of First-Mover Advantage
First-mover advantage is a real thing. It even has its own TLA (its three-letter acronym being FMA, obviously). The common... Read →
Are North Star Metrics Leading You Astray?
Alignment is essential for any organization and a challenge that many grapple with regularly. Ensuring everyone is striving toward the... Read →
Why Cost of Delay is a Product Manager’s Secret Weapon
Product management receives a constant barrage of requests from a variety of sources. Whether you’re talking to customers, salespeople, executives,... Read →
More from Jim Semick
How to Foster a Culture of Gratitude
As we head into a new year, we tend to talk more about gratitude. We talk about what we’re grateful… Read →
Getting to the MVP: 5 Tips for Launching New Products
If launching new products were easy, you’d probably be reading this post through your Google Glass or on an Amazon… Read →
9 Tips for Better Customer Validation Interviews
If I’ve learned anything from launching several products, it’s that interviewing potential customers is the best way to predict whether… Read →
How to Break Product Features into User Stories
During our recent webinar—How Product Managers and Agile Development Teams Can See Eye to Eye—we received so many attendee questions… Read →
How Product Managers Should Work with Agile Development Teams
What do you think it means to be a product owner — not simply the product manager, but a true… Read →
5 Ways to Become a Better Product Advocate Within Your Company
I recently did a webinar with Pragmatic Marketing on the topic of thought leadership for product managers. One of the… Read →
Data-Driven Product Roadmaps: Choosing the Right Metrics
Developing an effective product roadmap requires more than a product manager’s intuition and vision, although those elements are crucial. But… Read →
Product Managers: Are you a Thought Leader or Follower?
I was recently featured on a Pragmatic Marketing webinar about how product managers can become thought leaders. There was a… Read →
The 5 Ways to Know if Your Product Idea is a Winner
Thousands of new products launch every month. Yet only a fraction of those get enough traction to be considered successful…. Read →
Help! I’ve Been Handed a Bad Product Strategy
On our blog we often discuss the challenges of being a product manager. One recurring theme is that although you… Read →
Product Management Trends You Should Act on Today
Tools, technology and talent to develop innovative new products are more abundant and accessible today than they’ve ever been. Even… Read →
iPhone 7 Launch Day: Are Apple’s Product Teams Still Innovating?
Criticism can uncover important truths. This is one reason that product managers have such a difficult job: Sometimes the only… Read →
Aligning Sales and Product Teams on Your Roadmap
One of the biggest challenges product managers face is working with diverse stakeholders and managing their conflicting priorities. You’re pulled… Read →
Agile Roadmap Planning: How to Balance Long Term Uncertainty
At ProductPlan, I frequently get questions about agile roadmap planning. How should you balance long-term strategic planning with short-term agility?… Read →
How to Prioritize Features Before You Have Customers
It’s a challenge faced by most product managers and entrepreneurs at some point: How do you prioritize features for a… Read →
How a Public Roadmap is Helping ProductPlan Customer GOV.UK, and its Customers
A few years ago the UK government’s publicly available online information was spread out across hundreds of individual and disconnected… Read →
6 Product Management Insights from Mind The Product San Francisco 2016
Over 1,200 product managers gathered yesterday at the San Francisco symphony hall to hear 9 amazing speakers talk about the… Read →
How to Become a Better Public Speaker: Public Speaking Tips to Use Today
Public speaking isn’t usually included as a required skill in a typical product manager job description. But it should be…. Read →