Roadmap and Roadmap Management
The Biggest Mistake When Rolling Out a New Roadmapping Tool — and How to Avoid it
One of the product roadmap’s primary goals is to bring a company’s teams and departments together around a shared strategy...
Shaun Juncal
Product Management
When Is it Safe to Remove Functionality from Your Product? (Is it Ever?)
When do you even want to remove product functionality? Think about your car’s interior or the interior of the last...
Career and Interviews
The Unique Work of a Product Executive at a Mid-Size Company
In between “scrappy startup” and “enterprise behemoth” lies the mid-size company. With hundreds—or maybe even one or two thousand employees—organizations...
Customer-Centricity
Gathering Feedback From Unengaged Customers, Featuring Brian Tan
Customer feedback is the lifeblood of customer-centricity. It’s impossible to create and improve products without understanding customers’ experience, especially when...
Agile & Product Development
Your Dev Squads Shouldn’t Be Hitting 100% of Their Sprint Goals
Goals are a good thing. Without setting goals, we have don’t know what we’re trying to accomplish and have no...
Career and Interviews
Product Manager to VC: How a Product Background Makes You a Better Investor
From product manager… to a venture capitalist? Let’s state the obvious first: Historically, that has not been the typical career...
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
8 Reasons to Love Your Product Roadmap as a Gaming Product Manager
The world is made up of two types of people: Gamers and everybody else. Here at the ProductPlan blog, we...
Product Management
AI Product Management: Why Software Product Managers Need to Understand AI and Machine Learning
Artificial intelligence (AI) (and its subset, machine learning (ML)) is indisputably a rising star on the world’s technology stage. The...
Career and Interviews
The High Cost of Context Switching for Product Managers
Context switching is the silent productivity killer but is tough to avoid. Learn how you can minimize the cost of...
Product Management
Demystifying Product Management’s Role in Pricing Strategy
What is product management's role in pricing strategy? Let’s tackle how PMs can set long-term goals to drive growth.
Product Metrics and Analytics
6 Types of Churn Feedback (and What to Do About It)
Churn feedback is invaluable. That's why we're sharing how to efficiently collect, manage, and handle churn feedback for product success.
Product Management
7 Internal Politics Situations You’ll Encounter as a Product Manager
Working with people is the critical part of product management. Learn how to handle the most common workplace internal politics...
Roadmap and Roadmap Management
Feel Confident Tying Your Roadmap Back to Revenue
Regardless of your company structure, goal-setting strategy, or philosophical stance, at some point, the work you do on your product...
Product Management
Need a Product Manager Mentor? Here’s How to Find a Great One
When we’re new at something, we turn to trusted experts. Sure, we also glean all we can from the resources...
Product Management
How to Create a Product Operations Dashboard in 4 Steps
A product operations dashboard provides a visual way to track a subset of KPIs. Here is how to build your...
Agile & Product Development
Why Enterprise Architects Need to Be Great Storytellers
Leaders in technical organizations that want to advance their agendas must be able to communicate a strong vision and rationale...
Customer-Centricity
A Product Manager’s Guide to Building Customer Loyalty
In a world where advertising-supported products, SaaS products with monthly renewals, and free trials are de rigueur, customers don’t have...
Product Management
Product Accessibility Shouldn’t Be an Afterthought
Addressing product accessibility early and often is a best practice every product team should embrace. Learn the elements of accessibility.
Product Management
A Well-Balanced Roadmap: Combining Near-Term Priorities with Long-Term Goals
When we plan out our lives, it’s always a balance between our immediate needs and our distant objectives. Our product...
Product Metrics and Analytics
Managing Products that Lose Money
We explore how to manage unprofitable products and why companies like Amazon are hailed as innovative disruptors despite losing money.
Product Management
9 Ways to Recruit Beta Testers
Working with beta testers is a great way to ensure a new product or feature is ready for “prime time”...
Trends
2017 Product Planning Report
Download the 2nd edition of our annual product planning report. In our 2017 Product Planning Report you'll find insight and...
Trends
2018 Product Planning Report
Download our 2018 Product Planning Report and learn how leading companies around the world are planning and building products. This...
Agile & Product Development
Ship It: How Agile Product Managers Can Build Better Products
In Ship It, we dive into the topic of agile product management. Inside you’ll find best practices and advice for...