A Product Manager’s Guide to Roadmapping as an Essentialist
This article tackles one of the areas that gets the most interest from product managers: how can they use an essentialist approach to create…
An Alive Strategy vs. Dead Strategy
Building a product strategy is not enough; make sure the strategy is alive and aligned not just with the market and the customers but...
Why I Switched From Spreadsheets to a Roadmap Tool, Featuring Product Director Jay Hum
Not every product manager is lucky enough to work with a purpose-built roadmapping tool. The benefits outweigh other roadmapping options such as spreadsheets and...
5 Ways ProductPlan’s Table Will Make a Product Manager’s Work Easier
TLDR: The Newest Version of ProductPlan’s Roadmap App, with an Enhanced Table Can Be Your All-in-One Roadmapping Solution With the new and improved table,...
The Evolution of Product-Led Growth
The evolution of product-led growth may seem to be a recent trend at software companies, but the underlying concepts have been in full force...
Is It Time to Dump Your Product Frameworks?
Great products come from great product teams—not from frameworks. Using the right product framework can help guide a team’s work. But the product will...
Taking the Leap: Why Product Managers Make Better Entrepreneurs
I’ve spoken with so many product managers who have a dream of becoming an entrepreneur or launching their own product one day. Every one...
Zapier: My Personal Product Management Assistant
As a product manager at ProductPlan, I’m particularly proud of our new integration with Zapier because of the impact I know it can make....
6 Rules of Product Design According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
In this blog, we will discuss the applications of Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs to the world of product design and tips to use this...
Why It Is Essential to Put Customers First with a Customer-Led Product Strategy
At its most basic level, a customer-led product strategy means that your customers are the top priority at all times. Sounds pretty obvious, right?...
How Leadership Can Foster an Authentic Virtual Event for Your Employees
When you think of company-sponsored events, a few scenes may come to mind. There’s the holiday party where coworkers schmooze over food and drinks,...
3 Tips to Make Your Product Manager Resume Stand Out From the Rest
According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. ProductPlan’s State of Product Management Report...
A Product Manager’s Guide to Roadmapping as an Essentialist
This article tackles one of the areas that gets the most interest from product managers: how can they use an essentialist approach to create...
The Key to Driving Alignment is Remote Collaborative Exercises, Featuring Isabelle Berner VP of Product
Collaboration” and “remote work” may not seem like a perfect match. But teams can’t skimp on group work because the days of everyone being...
ProductPlan vs. Roadmunk
Comparing the two roadmapping softwares, ProductPlan vs. Roadmunk. Which is the best for functionality, feature set, design, and price?
If You’re Hitting All the Dates on Your Roadmap, You’re Doing It Wrong
Imagine a product team out for dinner and drinks. They’re celebrating a big win. The product manager, development team, product owner, maybe even a...
Shifting Your Business and Product Strategy During a Crisis, Featuring Adrienne Tan
In March 2020, many organizations found themselves suddenly plunged into crisis. A global pandemic sparked radical, immediate shifts with lasting effects. Companies had to...
Growing Sales in a Product-Led Company
The move towards product-led growth is on the rise, in part because potential customers increasingly prefer to experience a product or service first-hand before...
How Do You Know You’re Hiring a Good Product Team Member?
Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. It’s not overstating things to label bringing on new talent as critically...
Strategy is Important But It Isn’t Everything
In an ideal, data-driven world, every product, project, and program would come gift wrapped with its own precise set of goals, objectives, and KPIs....
The Roadmap Revolution: A Chance to Hit “Reset”
It’s that time of year where I’m both overwhelmed and excited to work on my roadmap. Maybe it’s the feeling of a fresh start...
Lean Market Validation: 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea
This article outlines the advice I gave students and includes updates on some of the concepts to my current thinking on lean market validation....
The Role Roadmaps Play in Managing Product Design
In modern software development, product designers tend to be embedded on a cross-functional squad or scrum team. That team’s collective work is often represented,...
How to Shift to Product-Led Growth, Featuring Wes Bush
Making a shift to product-led growth sounds pretty appealing, especially to product managers. Knowing your baby is the driving engine behind the entire company’s...
Declaring Roadmap Bankruptcy
Is it Time to Declare Roadmap Bankruptcy? Whether your product finds a market or falls flat, your team needs to understand why this outcome...
