How to Make a Compelling IT Services Roadmap
Let’s face it, IT Services doesn’t get the glory it deserves. Most large organizations would quickly grind to a halt... Read →
How to Create a Product Operations Dashboard in 4 Steps
Product management used to be a “fuzzy” discipline within an organization, without a ton of metrics and scrutiny directly applied... Read →
Why Product Managers Should Listen to Music at Work
Thanks to open floor plan offices, it’s common to see rows of knowledge workers heads down in their laptops with... Read →
More from Maddy Kirsch
Product Management or Sales: Who’s Responsible for the Product Demo?
Imagine: One of your sales reps pings you to ask if you’ll hop on a sales call to give a… Read →
Benefits of a Purpose-Built Roadmap Tool
We’ve written a lot here at the ProductPlan Blog about the value of crafting your product roadmap using purpose-built roadmap… Read →
6 Tips to Manage a Product Team That Spans Time Zones (Without Pulling Your Hair Out)
Here’s a conundrum for you. The first tenet of the Agile Manifesto states that teams developing software should value “individuals… Read →
5 Creative Ideas Your Product Team Can Run with, from Design Giant IDEO
Here at the ProductPlan blog, we’re always looking for great ideas we can share with you. Which means we read… Read →
Is Transparency a Good Idea in Product Management?
“What do we tell the public?” You’ve seen it 100 times in movies and TV shows. Something horrible is about… Read →
How Product Managers Can Benefit From Project Management Software
As a product manager, you have two key roles in your company. Actually, you likely have something more like 4,523… Read →
5 Things Product Managers Should Be Testing (But Probably Aren’t)
One of the most useful product management insights we’ve heard in a long time comes from a professional poker player…. Read →
When Should You Stop Gathering Customer Feedback… and Make a Decision?
Your product is ready. You’ve tested it—and it works exactly as you’d envisioned. You and your cross-functional teams have reviewed… Read →
How Product Managers Use Metrics to Build Better Products
Ever heard the story of Google’s early user-experience tests, where researchers sat users in front of a computer and then… Read →
8 Blogs Product Managers Should Bookmark Immediately
At ProductPlan, we’re big fans of blogs. We publish hundreds of articles a year on our own blog, and regularly… Read →
5 Agile Best Practices Many Product Teams Neglect
People can get very philosophical when talking about agile development. And often, a product manager’s discussion of their company’s agile… Read →
Does a Software Product Manager Need to be Technical?
Let’s skip right to the punchline: Yes, if you’re a product manager or hoping to begin a career in product… Read →
Is Product Training Part of the Product?
You can learn a valuable lesson about product training from an anecdote about toilet paper. The CMO of a well-known… Read →
Should Product Managers Focus More on High-Level Strategy or the Tactical Details?
A reporter once asked renowned behavioral psychologist Donald Hebb—the man credited with introducing the field of neuropsychology—a variation of the… Read →
6 Ways Product Managers Can Help Manage Technical Debt
In software development, technical debt refers to the accumulation of work that builds up when developers implement quicker, short-term solutions… Read →
How to Manage Multiple Development Tracks
Funny thing about juggling: It looks far more complicated and impressive to the untrained eye—or, more accurately, to the untrained… Read →
When Someone On Your Cross-Functional Product Team Won’t Cooperate
You’ve kicked off the development phase of your new product. Your executive team seems enthusiastic about the product’s potential. Your… Read →
6 Reasons Product Roadmaps Fail
Product roadmaps fail more often than you might realize, because they can be difficult to create properly. To be effective,… Read →