Getting Real about Customer Delight: The Strategy of Emotional Outcomes
It’s all the rage, and is often the reason we get out of the bed each day – we want... Read →
How Do You Know Your R&D Spend is Appropriate?
There is no more measurable part of an organization than the sales team. They have targets and quotas, and they... Read →
Top 7 Reasons You Need to Conduct a Squad Calibration With Your Product Team
Ocean’s 11. “The A-Team.” All those Fast & Furious movies… US popular culture is littered with examples of assembling all-star... Read →
Aligning Your Roadmap Themes to the Customer Journey
Much has been written over the last few years on the idea of the featureless roadmap, which challenges product teams... Read →
My Experience Transitioning From Engineering to Product Leadership
When I started my career as an engineer, I didn’t set my sights on becoming a product manager. Flash forward... Read →
Your MVP is Not the Minimum Product
If you’re a product manager or part of a startup, you’ve likely heard about the Minimum Viable Product concept for... Read →
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... Read →
4 Useful Real-Life Customer Interview Email Templates
Communication is a vital skill for product managers. We spend lots of time thinking about the best way to deliver... Read →
More from Victoria Fitoussi
How to Support a Change Management Process Using Roadmaps
Change is hard. It’s an uphill battle against the familiar, the routine, complacency, and inertia. Even when people agree, change… Read →
5 Key Responsibilities of a Product Owner
If there’s a more widely misunderstood job title than “product owner,” we’d like to see it. As a professional in… Read →
5 Strategies for Burning Down Silos and Building Bridges
As organizations grow and expand, keeping stakeholders and employees on the same page to drive alignment with your product strategy… Read →
From Chaos to Cohesion: Implementing Lightweight Processes
When you’re just getting things started, an anything-goes, Wild West attitude can sometimes be a positive. There’s so much new… Read →
Rethink Innovation: Making Experimentation and Learning a Fact of Life
In today’s world, the only thing you can count on is that things keep changing. Evolution is on permanent fast-forward… Read →
Proof Over Opinion: 8 Strategies for Selling a Roadmap to a Skeptic
Proof Over Opinion: 8 Strategies for Selling a Roadmap to a Skeptic Here you are up to your eyeballs, creating… Read →
My 9 Lessons Learned for Remote Success from Across Time Zones
I joined ProductPlan in the summer of 2019, excited to sink my teeth into creating product management content. However, joining… Read →
Roadmap What Matters Most
Product management turns chaos into order. We face down indecision, molding it into a concrete strategy. We sideline shiny objects…. Read →
5 Key Responsibilities of Intentional Leadership of a Remote Product Team
5 Key Responsibilities of Intentional Leadership of a Remote Product Team As many people have come to realize in recent… Read →
6 Remote Product Management Strategies to Implement for the Long-Term
Remote product management strategies are no longer a “niche” topic. The importance of working effectively from afar has become paramount… Read →
5 Roadmap Best Practices for Remote Product Managers
One of the biggest challenges facing any product team is internal communication. ProductPlan’s industry research illustrates this point. We surveyed… Read →
10 Ways a Feature-Less Roadmap Helps Your Product Strategy
Since releasing both a webinar and book on the impact of feature-less roadmaps on your product strategy recently, we’ve gotten… Read →
Prepare Yourself Against Executive Shiny Object Syndrome
Do you find yourself continually diverted from your product’s itinerary to delve into your boss’s new favorite subject? Are you… Read →
Happiness Insights for Successful Product Management Careers
What’s the secret to happiness? We’d tell you if we knew. But when it comes to finding happiness in your… Read →
The Art of Communication: 7 Tiny Tweaks That Deliver Big Impact
In our fifth annual Product Management report, communication ranked the most important skill absolutely essential to the role of product… Read →
So You Dislike Your Product Management Job
Product management isn’t for everyone. For example, some product managers might love hearing product management is “responsibility without authority.” For… Read →
Product Metrics Are Affecting Your Happiness
Happiness can be hard to find, especially in the workplace. Yet product managers generally love what they do and find… Read →
What Happens When Customers Have a Negative Product Experience
A human mind is a pattern-seeking machine. Our species has evolved an impressive ability to spot small, subtle clues to… Read →
Why People Buy and What it Means for Your Product
Your customers don’t want to buy your product. I mean, sure, they’re willing to hand over the cash (or credit… Read →
Why You’re Afraid of Your Product Roadmap
Roadmaps are scary. For product managers, a roadmap is the most widely discussed and circulated document. Despite being one of… Read →
5 Harsh Realities for Product Managers
Often here at the ProductPlan blog, you’ll find us writing about why it’s great to be a product manager. But… Read →
