Unless your product management stack includes a crystal ball, all those goals and resolutions we made way back in January… Read →

We build up trust in others based on our own experiences, or the recommendations of those who already have our… Read →

In our webinar Product Managers: Treat your Strategy as a Product, Hadrien Raffalli discusses the importance of tracking market activity… Read →

As a Customer Success Manager at ProductPlan for the past two years, I’ve worked with hundreds of our customers on… Read →

From product manager… to a venture capitalist? Let’s state the obvious first: Historically, that has not been the typical career… Read →

There is no going back to “normal” for product teams. The idea of simply translating what we did in the… Read →

Continuing education plays a crucial role in long-term career success in just about any profession. Product management is certainly no… Read →

“If you’re a growth stage company then you have to be able to make strategy decisions very rapidly. If you… Read →

A crisis can bring out the best (and worst) in people. Throughout my career, I’ve seen a spectrum of responses… Read →

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 Here you are up to your eyeballs, creating… Read →

The world is made up of two types of people: Gamers and everybody else. Here at the ProductPlan blog, we… Read →

I joined ProductPlan in the summer of 2019, excited to sink my teeth into creating product management content. However, joining… Read →

Product management turns chaos into order. We face down indecision, molding it into a concrete strategy. We sideline shiny objects…. Read →

No matter how much we love our career, we all have some days when we’d rather stay in bed. So… Read →

5 Key Responsibilities of Intentional Leadership of a Remote Product Team As many people have come to realize in recent… Read →

“Am I working on the right things?” “How can I fit it all in?” I find myself asking these questions… Read →

We are excited to welcome guest writer Carlos González de Villaumbrosia to the ProductPlan blog. Carlos González de Villaumbrosia has… Read →

Remote product management strategies are no longer a “niche” topic. The importance of working effectively from afar has become paramount… Read →

One of the biggest challenges facing any product team is internal communication. ProductPlan’s industry research illustrates this point. We surveyed… Read →

In a world of browser-based solutions, experimentation and rapid iteration are sometimes taken for granted. Some products get released multiple… Read →

Promotions are considered the ultimate form of recognition that you’re doing a great job, and your company values you. It… Read →

Have you reviewed your list of New Year’s Resolutions recently? Statistically speaking, you won’t like what you see. According to… Read →

Since releasing both a webinar and book on the impact of feature-less roadmaps on your product strategy recently, we’ve gotten… Read →

Artificial intelligence (AI) (and its subset, machine learning (ML)) is indisputably a rising star on the world’s technology stage. The… Read →

Do you find yourself continually diverted from your product’s itinerary to delve into your boss’s new favorite subject? Are you… Read →

A strategic product manager (PM) is responsible for shaping and sharing a strategic vision for a product, and yet—oddly enough—finding… Read →

I’ll admit it, in the past, I’ve wrestled with needing to control uncertainty. For years I thoroughly planned most everything… Read →

What’s the secret to happiness? We’d tell you if we knew. But when it comes to finding happiness in your… Read →

We live in the age of quantifiable measurability. Data abounds, analysis is cheap, and numbers are harder to dispute than… Read →

In our fifth annual Product Management report, communication ranked the most important skill absolutely essential to the role of product… Read →

“Being Agile” and “being predictable” may seem mutually exclusive, at least when it comes to product management. A good sprint… Read →

Product management isn’t for everyone. For example, some product managers might love hearing product management is “responsibility without authority.” For… Read →

The most successful product managers think of themselves as finders of pain, not finders of products. In my experience launching… Read →

Happiness can be hard to find, especially in the workplace. Yet product managers generally love what they do and find… Read →

Despite general happiness with their jobs, many product managers are still looking to improve some things, and there are some… Read →

Product management roles offer opportunities for autonomy, creativity, and innovation. Variety is the spice of life; therefore, this should result… Read →

Your roadmaps aren’t for everyone. It’s essential to tailor your product roadmaps for your audience. One-size-fits-all might sound more manageable,… Read →

The toughest part of product management might be prioritization. It’s where data and logic meet intuition and judgment. It’s easy… Read →

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. Building the… Read →

Thanks to the Internet, there is no unfindable fact. As information is always at the ready, there’s no excuse not… Read →

In computer programming, context switching refers to storing an active process in its current state so the system’s CPU can… Read →