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 →

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 →

What is market validation? It’s a question I hear a lot, especially when mentoring young entrepreneurs. Market validation is the… Read →

Like you, we have now seen a dozen articles predicting the top trends for product managers in 2016. Yes, we… Read →

As product managers, we all know we should talk with our customers more. You can improve the quality of these… 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 →

Master Plans are a great way to merge roadmaps together for a portfolio. We’ve released new features that make it… 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 →