In between “scrappy startup” and “enterprise behemoth” lies the mid-size company. With hundreds—or maybe even one or two thousand employees—organizations… Read →

Marketplaces like Amazon and eBay have built such outstanding online shopping experiences that consumers now take these experiences for granted…. Read →

Change is hard. It’s an uphill battle against the familiar, the routine, complacency, and inertia. Even when people agree, change… Read →

Once you’re blessed with the opportunity to expand your product management team with a new hire, you have options to… Read →

When you’re new to a product management role, you enter the situation with minimal credibility, name recognition, or trust beyond… Read →

If there’s one degree that is most beneficial to product management types, it’s likely a Masters in Business Administration. An… Read →

There are many roles where your career path is clear. But, product management is a different story. People have transitioned… Read →

Roadmaps are a unique tool for creating and maintaining stakeholder alignment, resource planning, and budgeting purposes. But what happens when… Read →

If there’s a more widely misunderstood job title than “product owner,” we’d like to see it. As a professional in… Read →

Product managers, product leaders, and product executives have no shortage of educational opportunities. From books, podcasts, and blogs to earning… Read →

It’s all the rage, and is often the reason we get out of the bed each day – we want… Read →

There is no more measurable part of an organization than the sales team. They have targets and quotas, and they… Read →

Most of us think of LinkedIn as our always-updated Rolodex. Our professional contacts and connections are stored in there, with… Read →

Crazy-busy. Hustle culture. These loaded terms have risen to become a badge of workplace honor. They describe a state of… Read →

Ocean’s 11. “The A-Team.” All those Fast & Furious movies… US popular culture is littered with examples of assembling all-star… Read →

Much has been written over the last few years on the idea of the featureless roadmap, which challenges product teams… Read →

When I started my career as an engineer, I didn’t set my sights on becoming a product manager. Flash forward… Read →

If you’re a product manager or part of a startup, you’ve likely heard about the Minimum Viable Product concept for… Read →

Goals are a good thing. Without setting goals, we have don’t know what we’re trying to accomplish and have no… Read →

Communication is a vital skill for product managers. We spend lots of time thinking about the best way to deliver… Read →

I’m writing for the first time on the ProductPlan blog! Long time reader, first time writer. I’m currently a remote… Read →

As organizations grow and expand, keeping stakeholders and employees on the same page to drive alignment with your product strategy… Read →

I’ve worked exclusively on digital products for over 14 years, primarily in product and design-centric roles. Thinking back, it’s surprising… Read →

When you’re just getting things started, an anything-goes, Wild West attitude can sometimes be a positive. There’s so much new… Read →

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 →