Imagine: One of your sales reps pings you to ask if you’ll hop on a sales call to give a… Read →

We’ve written a lot here at the ProductPlan Blog about the value of crafting your product roadmap using purpose-built roadmap… Read →

Here’s a conundrum for you. The first tenet of the Agile Manifesto states that teams developing software should value “individuals… Read →

Here at the ProductPlan blog, we’re always looking for great ideas we can share with you. Which means we read… Read →

You’ve seen it 100 times in movies and TV shows. Something horrible is about to happen—an asteroid is hurtling toward… Read →

As a product manager, you have two key roles in your company. Actually, you likely have something more like 4,523… Read →

One of the most useful product management insights we’ve heard in a long time comes from a professional poker player…. Read →

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 →

Ever heard the story of Google’s early user-experience tests, where researchers sat users in front of a computer and then… Read →

At ProductPlan, we’re big fans of blogs. We publish hundreds of articles a year on our own blog, and regularly… Read →

People can get very philosophical when talking about agile best practices. And often, a product manager’s discussion of their company’s… Read →

Let’s skip right to the punchline: Yes, if you’re a product manager or hoping to begin a career in product… Read →

You can learn a valuable lesson about product training from an anecdote about toilet paper. The CMO of a well-known… Read →

A reporter once asked renowned behavioral psychologist Donald Hebb—the man credited with introducing the field of neuropsychology—a variation of the… Read →

In software development, how to manage technical debt refers to the accumulation of work that builds up when developers implement… Read →

Funny thing about juggling: It looks far more complicated and impressive to the untrained eye—or, more accurately, to the untrained… Read →

You’ve kicked off the development phase of your new product. Your executive team seems enthusiastic about the product’s potential. Your… Read →

Product roadmaps fail more often than you might realize because they can be difficult to create properly. To be effective,… Read →

Optimism can be a great asset, and enthusiasm for your product is invaluable. But super-high expectations? Not so much. As… Read →

Before we look at some example business roadmaps, and roadmap templates, try this word-association exercise. As you read a word… Read →

Think of this as a pop quiz. If you’re a product manager or other product professional, you spend hours every… Read →

Now that it’s been around for a number of years and many businesses have been able to use it to… Read →

Effective product managers employ all sorts of strategies to gather actionable intelligence about their products so they can continually improve… Read →

It’s not your fault your minimum viable product sucks. Not entirely, anyway. The pressure on software product managers seems to… Read →

If you’re ready to start creating a roadmap, I’ll assume two things. First, your organization has already determined your product’s… Read →

The dental profession has a saying: “You’re only billing if you’re drilling and filling.” A dentist’s practice is a complex… Read →

Why create a list of podcasts for product managers? Easy. Product managers are busy. But you’re also a highly creative… Read →

It must seem to the founder of a young company like the most natural move to make, an absolute no-brainer…. Read →

In his controversial bestseller Everything Bad is Good for You, author Steven Johnson made the case that TV, movies, video… Read →

Product planning is a difficult term to define because it’s so broad and involves so many different aspects of a… Read →

Let’s say someone at your company, maybe an executive, suggests prioritizing a new epic for your product. And let’s further… Read →

In an interview with MTV years ago, hip hop executive Lyor Cohen offered an important insight when asked about the… Read →

Do product managers make good startup founders? The short answer is (probably) yes, product managers are well equipped to transition… Read →

Sometimes I think a product manager’s job could be more accurately described as Manager of Conundrums. As a product manager… Read →

How do you effectively scale a product team from just a handful of product managers to several dozen? What skills… Read →

The idea of agile project management might strike you as wishful thinking at first. It’s like the notion of limiting… Read →