
Is the Product Demo Actually Product’s Responsibility?
Imagine: One of your sales reps pings you to ask if you’ll hop on a sales call to give a product demo to a...
Imagine: One of your sales reps pings you to ask if you’ll hop on a sales call to give a product demo to a...
We’ve written a lot here at the ProductPlan Blog about the value of crafting your product roadmap using purpose-built roadmap software, as opposed to...
Here’s a conundrum for you. The first tenet of the Agile Manifesto states that teams developing software should value “individuals and interactions over processes...
Here at the ProductPlan blog, we’re always looking for great ideas we can share with you. Which means we read a lot more than...
You’ve seen it 100 times in movies and TV shows. Something horrible is about to happen—an asteroid is hurtling toward earth, a pandemic is...
As a product manager, you have two key roles in your company. Actually, you likely have something more like 4,523 roles, but we’ll keep...
One of the most useful product management insights we’ve heard in a long time comes from a professional poker player. No, seriously. Hear us...
Your product is ready. You’ve tested it—and it works exactly as you’d envisioned. You and your cross-functional teams have reviewed your plans for marketing,...
Ever heard the story of Google’s early user-experience tests, where researchers sat users in front of a computer and then watched to see how...
At ProductPlan, we’re big fans of blogs. We publish hundreds of articles a year on our own blog, and regularly share other articles, blog...
People can get very philosophical when talking about agile best practices. And often, a product manager’s discussion of their company’s agile philosophy is so...
Let’s skip right to the punchline: Yes, if you’re a product manager or hoping to begin a career in product management, particularly in a...
You can learn a valuable lesson about product training from an anecdote about toilet paper. The CMO of a well-known restaurant chain (you’ve eaten...
A reporter once asked renowned behavioral psychologist Donald Hebb—the man credited with introducing the field of neuropsychology—a variation of the standard nature vs. nurture...
In software development, how to manage technical debt refers to the accumulation of work that builds up when developers implement quicker, short-term solutions instead...
You’ve kicked off the development phase of your new product. Your executive team seems enthusiastic about the product’s potential. Your first meetings with the...
Product roadmaps fail more often than you might realize because they can be difficult to create properly. To be effective, a roadmap needs to...
Optimism can be a great asset, and enthusiasm for your product is invaluable. But super-high expectations? Not so much. As we’ve written here on...
Before we look at some example business roadmaps, and roadmap templates, try this word-association exercise. As you read a word in the list below,...
Think of this as a pop quiz. If you’re a product manager or other product management professional, you spend hours every day driving your...
Now that it’s been around for a number of years and many businesses have been able to use it to great effect, agile product...
Effective product managers employ all sorts of strategies to gather actionable intelligence about their products so they can continually improve them. They study the...
It’s not your fault your minimum viable product sucks. Not entirely, anyway. The pressure on software product managers seems to grow more intense every...
If you’re ready to start creating a roadmap, I’ll assume two things. First, your organization has already determined your product’s vision which is the...
The dental profession has a saying: “You’re only billing if you’re drilling and filling.” A dentist’s practice is a complex operation requiring a large...
Why create a list of podcasts for product managers? Easy. Product managers are busy. We want to learn, improve our craft, and stay up-to-date...
It must seem to the founder of a young company like the most natural move to make, an absolute no-brainer. Why not take on...
In his controversial bestseller Everything Bad is Good for You, author Steven Johnson made the case that TV, movies, video games and the rest...
Product planning is a difficult term to define because it’s so broad and involves so many different aspects of a product manager’s job. In...
Let’s say someone at your company, maybe an executive, suggests prioritizing a new epic for your product. And let’s further assume that the epic...
In an interview with MTV years ago, hip hop executive Lyor Cohen offered an important insight when asked about the string of professional failures...
Do product managers make good startup founders? The short answer is (probably) yes, product managers are well equipped to transition to startup founders. The...
Sometimes I think a product manager’s job could be more accurately described as Manager of Conundrums. As a product manager you’ll need to build...
How do you effectively scale a product team from just a handful of product managers to several dozen? What skills are important for product...
The idea of agile project management might strike you as wishful thinking at first. It’s like the notion of limiting yourself to just one...
If you want to become a software developer, one option is to major in computer science or software engineering in college. You probably won’t...
If you’ve been tasked with scaling the product team, you’ve probably already spent some time thinking about the traits of high-performing product teams. Today...
The product roadmap presentation might be one of the most important meetings that a product manager has with internal stakeholders. This is, after all,...
When ProductPlan spoke recently with Brian Crofts, the Vice President of Product at Namely, as part of our Product Lessons Learned interview series, Brian...
We recently teamed up with Pivotal Tracker and Notion to host a product management networking event in Los Angeles called “Product Stack”. Over drinks...
Before we talk about product launch checklists, let’s do a quick thought experiment. Do you think that if the producers of the 2017 Academy...
There’s a great scene in Seinfeld where Jerry goes to a rental car counter to pick up a midsized car he reserved. When she...